Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Manila Chronicle : "One of the most lucrative trades in Manila today is selling Army goods, obtained by hook or crook, at black-market prices. Eating places sell bread, butter and coffee with condensed milk, pies and other delicacies made of materials that can be obtained only from the Army. Small boys roam the streets everyday, peddling candy, cigarets and whatnot bought from G.I.s needing ready cash...
...dosed, only ½ of 1% got sick even in bumpy air (normal: 7½%). ¶Eating foods with lots of carbohydrates improves resistance to "blackouts" caused by lack of oxygen at high altitudes. Reason: it reduces the body's oxygen requirements. Moral: high flyers should stoke up on bread and potatoes rather than ham & eggs...
While the Ministers were taking their oath, crowds before A.M.G. headquarters in Milan shouted for bread and work. In Turin, Pavia, Brescia and Novara there were similar demonstrations. In Ferrara and Modena mobs broke into the jails, Tommy-gunned to death some 30 Fascist prisoners...
Atlantic City hotelmen complained that Hollywood too often pictured their resort as a week-end hideaway for the boss and his secretary, asked that the movies indicate that at least some men go there with their wives. The casual remark of a popular star - "They say white bread is not good for you" - brought thousands of angry letters from millers, bakers, wheat farmers. The Hays Office keeps a weather eye out for such unwitting antagonizers, warns producers to avoid them wherever possible...
...Serious food shortages, due in part to labor shortages, threatened Britain last week. Bakers, short of help, feared a bread shortage as thousands of evacuees returned to London. One bakery with twelve ovens, normally producing 35,000 loaves daily, now produces only 12,000. Fish catches are enormous, but the labor shortage is making the handling of the catches very difficult. Late frosts have delayed new potatoes. Manchester, which usually consumes 1,500 tons of potatoes daily, got none one day last week. Liverpool is using its last potato reserves. When the food cuts were announced, Britons were promised more...