Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more shameful. Because of the lack of promised U.S. grains, hunger sat at tables all over Europe. In Italy, children with spidery legs and leathery skin stalked the streets, struck down by malnutrition (see MEDICINE). Greece, Yugoslavia and Poland were down to a two-weeks' supply of bread grains. In Germany, hungry burghers rooted through refuse; in some parts of China, mud, grass and tree bark were staple foods...
...Course of True Love. Lest the hungry French succumb too readily to the ardent Russians, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey made an opportune announcement: "During the nine months from July 1, 1945 to April 1, 1946, shipments of bread grains from the U.S. to France and French North Africa totaled 1,894,250 metric tons...
...difficult but not intolerable, provided present rations can be maintained." But last week, in Warsaw, he found Poland's food situation "heartbreakingly bad"-the worst he had seen. He found "over 2,600,000 children terribly subnormal from undernourishment... two cities, Cracow and Lodz, have already been without bread for three weeks at a time...
...Same day the News gave a scant two paragraphs to an A.P. report of hunger raids on 60 Hamburg bread stores, and a British medical officer's report that the first definite signs of starvation were apparent in the city...
...last week stopped meat shipments to Europe; if Britain and the U.S. wanted food for Europe, they would have to pay for it with more than money. By withholding wheat shipments to Brazil until the Brazilians ponied up with 10,000 tires for Peró's trucks, bread queues were threatened...