Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening, if he has no urgent meeting, he dines at home with Isobel. Their menu: carrots or other raw vegetables, black bread, fruit. Ever since he drove for the Red Cross in France during World War I, Cripps has been bothered by intestinal trouble. In 1935 he became a vegetarian. Cripps and Isobel eat no cooked foods, except for an occasional boiled potato...
...Bread & Coffee. But last week these deprivations seemed like minor matters. Great numbers of the Navajos are facing starvation. Only 161 of their 11,117 families own as many as 200 sheep-the number needed to maintain a mere subsistence level of living. Without big irrigation projects (which could make the reservation capable of supporting 35,000 people at most), their desolate lands are almost useless for agriculture...
...promised to ship two carloads of potatoes a month. But from 25,000 to 30,000 Navajos were lingering in the state between malnutrition and starvation. The whole tribe's diet averaged only 1,200 calories (the U.S. average: 3,450) and many have nothing to eat but bread and coffee. Assistant Secretary of the Interior William E. Warne visited the reservation and last week announced a ten-year, $80 million plan for solving the Navajo problem...
...zones were not. But now Russian-zone Germans are as hungry as those in the West. Near Bitterfeld, townfolk were using their Sunday off to glean the few stray wheat stalks left in the stubble of a wheatfield. They grind the grain by hand and make a sort of bread. Some, unable to wait, were eagerly breaking the stalk heads open and eating as they gleaned. It left a grayish paste of kernel shell around their lips...
...State Planning Commission pointedly announced that Russia's 1947 crop was 58% more than last year's. Agriculture experts believed the actual figure was near 61,000,000 tons, or only about 25% above last year. Just how much grain Russia would be able to spare for bread-politics abroad depended on whether Joseph Stalin fulfilled his long standing promise to lift bread rationing at home. At any rate, on the hungry Continent, only Russia watched winter's approach without apprehension...