Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, many a professional athlete and club owner had another war on his mind. The draft act put a horrid fear into the minds of sports promoters: that the draft would rob them of their bread winners. Recently loud Larry MacPhail, a World War I veteran who tried to kidnap the Kaiser after the Armistice, made a plea for his Brooklyn Dodgers, asked that ballplayers caught in the draft be deferred until the season's end. Otherwise, said he, they would lose two seasons' play -and pay. It has cost a fortune to build the team...
Rationing in both occupied and unoccupied France was already tightened to the limit. With his daily food card a Frenchman could buy each day only half a loaf of bread, a chunk of meat the size of a half dollar, a few crumbs of cheese, enough potatoes for five slices if fried (and if he had something to fry them in), less than enough sugar to sweeten a cup of unobtainable coffee, less than enough butter to fry an egg (if he could find...
...Bread is Spain's great problem, and bread to keep the people from starving is going to Spain through the British blockade, both from the U. S. and from Argentina. Much as General Franco may lean toward Germany and Italy ideologically, for the moment food is as important to him as friendship. He hoped his good friend II Duce understood that...
...Duce did. After some more conversation, of which no word leaked out, the three men emerged from their conference with faces wreathed in smiles. What they had cooked up was anybody's guess, but a good one was that Spain would continue to trade neutrality to Britain for bread until Britain looks nearly beaten. Then, if that time ever comes, Spain will step...
When it was ordered that mention of exiled King Haakon be stricken from prayers, Norwegian Lutheran ministers developed the practice of pausing while congregations thunderously filled in the deletion. With other insignia banned, loyal Norsemen now wear in their buttonholes bread-ration cards, still stamped with King Haakon's arms...