Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bread was a powerful weapon in the New Comintern's fight on the Marshall Plan. The Soviet Union had already committed itself to distribute 850,000 tons among Eastern European satellites-Czechoslovakia (400,000), Poland (300,000), Finland (150,000)-plus unknown amounts to Rumania and Bulgaria. There were also hints of Soviet grain for France, Belgium, Norway in exchange for industrial machinery...
Wheat, the other scare commodity which Truman proposes for greater European export, still is being consumed by the College at normal levels durant reported. He agreed to poll student opinion before ordering outs in bread, wheat cereals, and other combinations containing wheat...
Chuck Luckman nevertheless stuck to his guns. Out of his volunteer headquarters, which had spread down one side of an entire corridor in the old State Department building, his aides pumped out a steady stream of suggestions, advice, recipes, and bales of statistics (one slice of bread saved per person each day means seven million 1-lb. loaves a day for Europe). He flatly turned down any idea of legal controls...
...distillers (with 90% of the nation's capacity) agreed to halt operations for 60 days and release all grain on hand or on order. Estimated savings: ten to 20 million bushels of grain. The nation's bakers announced that they would save up to 7% on their bread by refusing to take back stale leftovers from retailers. The National Grange, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Council of Farm Cooperatives produced a five-point program to save grain by feeding less, eliminating waste and marketing lighter stock...
...Every action taken by Congress or the President in this relief crisis will have the unequivocal support of the great body of Baptists throughout the United States and the world. We will join any kind of rationing program or make any voluntary sacrifice to make bread available to those who do not have it. . . . There is no place for divisiveness on this issue, for it is the biggest issue of the hour...