Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Tack. In Milan, Italy, people got worried about their bread's strange texture, learned that hard-up bakers had stretched flour rations with marble dust...
Down: Meat & Beer. All week long Britons were bombarded by bad news, dark predictions and more austerity. The Government served notice of a cut in fresh meat rations, and warned that bread and bacon rations might be cut. Mrs. Rose Wood of Arrington, Cheshire, sent Food Minister John Strachey two ounces of bacon and an ounce of cooking fat with a sizzling note suggesting that he "take this back and export it with the other things...
...ravens brought him [Elijah'] bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook...
...siege of the Chinese walled city of Yungnien were convinced this week that the airplane would never replace the raven as a satisfactory instrument for airborne delivery. For a year Yungnien's dwindling population had been perilously supplied by the Nationalist Government. Great, 60-pound loaves of unleavened bread and cases of canned fish, pitched from low-flying aircraft, had warded off starvation, but they had also: 1) punched gaping holes in almost every roof; 2) leveled some dwellings by direct "hits" on the center beams; 3) killed at least 22 people...
Ancient Yungnien, 200 miles south of Peiping in Hopeh Province, had weathered 13 centuries of Mongol, Tartar and Manchu invasion before it began crumbling under the rain of friendly bread. The Japanese, who had occupied the city, abandoned its 35,000 citizens in August 1945 to a ragtag puppet garrison, which was quickly adopted-but not reinforced -by the Nationalist Government. When Chinese Communist forces neared, the garrison breached the banks of the nearby Fu Yang River and turned Yungnien into a Nationalist fortress in a vast, Red-bordered lake...