Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians, perturbed by increased sinkings, did take in the national belt. The Cabinet announced that bread-the most important item in the common Italian's diet-would be rationed sharply. Each woman and child was to eat no more than 200 grams a day-about seven ounces, or four dinky rolls. Workers would get 300 grams; heavy laborers, 400 grams. The Cabinet apologized: "The wheat crop was less than the estimates . . . while the needs of the armed forces in occupied territory have mounted...
...British, unperturbed by increased sinkings, let out the national belt. The Ministry of Food announced a reduction in the price of bread and fish. Main reason: increased food shipments from the U.S. and the Dominions...
...thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), inositol, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, biotin and folic acid (first described last week by Dr. Roger John Williams of Texas). To keep up B requirements, Dr. Tom Spies of Birmingham, Ala. suggested a daily sandwich of yeast and peanut butter on peeled wheat bread (made from grain with only the thin outer tissue removed...
...years ago, a gentle, dark-eyed boy of 17 stabbed his mother 32 times with a bread knife. He was quite intelligent: he worked night & day, in school, in a bakery and tending his fatherless brothers and sisters. Everyone in the neighborhood liked and respected...
...forgotten his friends' warnings that if he married her she could easily slit him open while he slept, pump him full of embalming fluid. Says he: "To this day I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat. . . . I have to go out of the room when she slices bread...