Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White bread-the symbol of American plenty-would have to be displaced by a grey-or cream-colored bread*; the President decreed that wheat flour be made from 80% instead of the normal 70% of the whole grain. Production of whiskey and of other grain alcohol beverages would have to be cut back to wartime levels. Beer brewing would have to be cut by 30% (back to the 1940 rate). The wartime set-aside of pork for Government purchase was reinstated. The President warned the U.S. that it might even have to go back to meat rationing...
...Antarctic whaling results were disappointing, the ration of cooking fat was to be reduced to seven ounces a week (former ration: eight ounces). Because imports of fodder were reduced, there would soon be less bacon, less poultry, fewer shell eggs (present average: 2½ eggs per person a month). Bread might again be rationed too. "Not one grain more" of barley would go to the distillers; whiskey would be scarcer than ever, and Sir Ben was "sorry about that...
Three single-motored planes roared over the heads of the pickets and over the plant's wire fence, landed safely inside the gates. Out tumbled bags of bread, meat, canned goods and cigarets-provisions for the company stay-ins. Promptly the union hired a patrol plane to find the company's base of operations. It never did; the supplies kept coming...
Baking at Home. Even the minor strikes looked big to the people closest to them. In Cincinnati the strike that hit home was in the bakeries. Hospitals and school lunchrooms still got bread, but grocery shelves were bare. In some homes, the ancient custom of bread-baking was revived...
...Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, whose somber fantasies went almost unnoticed until after he died in 1917, once remarked that "The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...