Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, as it would be for months to come, the mind of the world was on wheat -bread for the hungry, from the Rhine to the Yangtze. But in the great U.S. food factory, corn-and-hog farmers did not change over their fields to wheat production, nor did cattlemen plow up their rich pastures. Each in his individualistic way was tooled for his specialty and subject only to the weather and the vagaries of a controlled economy. Each knew that if he did his part, and if the other farmers of the world could once again do theirs...
...appalling responsibilities of victory had come to be represented by one word. "Bread," said Herbert Hoover in Cairo last week, "has a reality as the symbol of life as never before in history. ... To reduce the bread ration has become a symbol of calamity...
...Budapest's Town Park an American could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
...Each got one shell egg a week (wartime powdered eggs have disappeared from the British diet). A pineapple cost $30. Yet a girl from France visiting London called it "paradise" because "they have enough to eat and in France we haven't." The French got 10 oz. of bread a day, 20 oz. of fat and 18 oz. of sugar a month. This was supplemented by a little meat, fish and vegetables...
Then U.S. officers discovered that the epidemic had been caused by arsenic which had been smeared on the prisoners' bread rations with a brush. Six arsenic bottles (two of them empty) were found under the floor of the local bakery. First theory was that the poison was being used to exterminate cockroaches. But further investigation showed that the unknown poisoner was not after ordinary vermin. His aim, announced U.S. counterintelligence, was to kill the camp's inmates-some...