Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world problems. After two Crime editorials urging food-saving, the Council polled the undergraduate body on the advisability of cutting portions here to buy for the starving abroad. An overwhelmingly favorable response enabled the College dining halls to save about $750 a week by omitting extra cookies, desserts, bread, and cereals. And when asked to send a delegate for New England to an International Students' Conference at Prague, the College voiced a strong affirmative in another Council poll...
Then Communists flooded toward the square by the thousands, chanting the national anthem like a samba. Their banners said: "We want bread," "We are for democracy," "Break with Spain." At the square they met the mounted police who, faces tight with fear, forced them back. Then, reported Correspondent Newton, "a man mounted on others' shoulders told the crowd, 'They cannot stop the meeting. This is still a democracy...
Europe in the Spring. "The first King and Queen with whom I broke bread abroad," he goes on, remembering the trip to the Peace Conference in 1919, "were King George and Queen Mary." The King made a little quip; the Queen "was not greatly amused"; they all had a nice lunch. While in Paris for the Peace Conference, the Secretary went to the opera with Admiral W. S. Benson, U.S. Naval Adviser. Benson was "shocked at the near nakedness of the actresses and the risque remarks," and wanted to walk out. Says Daniels: "I quite shared his feelings but told...
What about Britain? Stumpy Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, hurried to Washington to explain that his people had already cut the size of their bread loaf, might be forced to ration bread. Before departing, he agreed to a second 200,000-ton cut in the allocation of North American grain to Britain...
...huge elevator at bleak, ice-locked Churchill on Hudson Bay has hoarded 1,800,000 bushels of prairie wheat since 1939 (18% of what the U.S. dark-bread-&-smaller-loaf campaign expects to save for Europe). For the first time since war's outbreak nipped off commercial traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat...