Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bread was priced at $15 a loaf in Athens last week and there was no bread. There were no potatoes, no figs, no raisins, no tomatoes. There was, in short, famine. The sight of wasted men & women faulting in the street was so common that no one thought anything...
...have to go into the bread lines?" wailed truckmen and taximen...
...workers who need extra energy should be served "Oslo meals" in mid-morning and afternoon. Originally given to Norwegian school children, Oslo meals (now used in British factories) consist of wholemeal bread, cheese, half an orange, half an apple, a raw carrot, a little less than a pint of milk...
...villagers back & forth. Then someone talked. German authorities checked up, found as many maidens walked out on moonlit lanes as ever before, as many men plowed the fields, as many oldsters sat in the sun, drinking the wine of Cérilly and upbraiding the quality of the bread. With Teutonic thoroughness, statisticians laboriously calculated that Cérilly had celebrated so many funerals that virtually every living soul in the village should be dead by now. Revealed at last was M. Guichard's sly scheme which had truly Gallic wit and practicality...
...coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic. Then the cortege moved to Santiago Cathedral, where Archbishop Jose Maria Caro celebrated a two-hour Solemn High Mass for the soul of the man who had fixed low prices for the bread upon which millions of Chileans chiefly depend...