Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov addressed a violent memorandum last week to all nations with which he deals, complaining of German atrocities against Soviet prisoners of war: "Miserable rations of rotten bread or rotten potatoes . . . hands cut off. eyes gouged, stomachs ripped open . . . raping and outraging of the honor of women . . . stripping the wounded naked...
...with China had been a war of vic tory. Newsreels had shown heaps of Chinese dead, never a Japanese body. But even victory had pinched Japan. Last week, as for many, many weeks, rice was rationed and bread, when available, was sour and heavy with acorn flour. Press notices warned: "Vegetable-Hungry People Not To Raid Fields in City's Suburbs...
President Pedro Agnirre Cerda is popularly known as Don Tinto because of the excellent red wine of the vineyards that made him rich. Rich President Aguirre's Popular Front Government reduced the price of bread from 2.20 pesos (11?) to 1.70 (9?) and the price of some meats by 40%, made available to workers who had never tasted milk 12,000 litres a day at 80 centavos a litre, returned from Government-owned pawnshops some 9,000,000 pesos worth of hocked tools and clothing. "Don Tinto," says the poor man of Chile, "es un muy buen hombre" (TIME...
...early as mid-September men and women fainting from hunger were a common sight in the streets of Athens, Salonika, Peiraeus. Bread, wheat and flour were the first commodities the Germans confiscated. Later they took tomatoes, sent them to Libya, where German troops were suffering from scurvy. Dried figs and raisins, now the staples of Greek diet, also are being commandeered, shipped to Germany...
Micellany. In lola, Kans., Richard Tobey by experiment proved to his own satisfaction that mice preferred bread to bacon, bacon to cheese...