Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin show had an understandable bread & butter motive; 30,000 marks worth was quickly sold, with the artists getting 85% of the take. Appropriately, the exhibit was staged in Goebbels' former rubber-stamp art works, the Reichskultur-kammer...
...Viennese, who have eaten probably six or seven hundred calories daily for the past few months, moved with the ominous languor of people who have been hungry a long, long time. Old women, poorly dressed but neat in their poverty, approached jeeps with notes in rudimentary English: "Give me bread please. I am hunger...
...women coming away from food queues tore off chunks of bread and gnawed at them without waiting to get home. All shops were closed except food markets, and their stocks were pitifully limited. Partial electric service has been restored, but there is no gas yet, and some Viennese families have gone months without one hot meal. From the Vienna woods plod long lines of poor women, many of them barefoot, sweating and staggering under heavy loads of faggots for the city's stoves...
medical care, transient shelters, bread-and-soup lines, harvest work. Then the wanderers were hustled on. In some places confiscated landed estates were distributed to them. But all efforts seemed puny against the colossal need...
What they missed was the kind of scenes that are butter to the tabloid's bread. Samples...