Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bread Punk...
...rain and the mud were warm and there was little hardship. There were no bread lines-the rice crop had been plentiful-and there were thousands of new civilian jobs behind the lines. Men who had toiled at forced labor under the Japanese now worked at handsome pay for Philippine pesos pegged at prewar value (50? in U.S. currency). Churches opened again, for worship and as hospitals for the wounded Americans. There was a new and thriving trade in throat-searing Philip pine "whiskey" at ten U.S. dollars a quart. And though most Filipino girls are devout and moral Catholics...
...Bread, No Beds. In the slowly reviving capital, life collapsed completely. Martial law and the general strike ordered by EAM paralyzed all public services. Shops closed, trams stopped, streets emptied. Conditions at Athens' Hospital of the Evangelist had been bad enough before the fighting began. Now so many civilians had been wounded that there was not enough of anything, except drugs, to care for them. Patients lay on mattresses on the floor. Even the doctors' offices, reception rooms and corridors were full of wounded...
...crisis was less acute, but the Maastricht appendix was inflamed. And over all liberated Holland the fear of hunger washed like the sea through the Nazi-blasted dikes. For it was chiefly the most industrialized sections of Holland that had been liberated. There was no meat, scarcely any bread. It was believed that reserves of fuel (and hence electric power) could not last out the month. Hordes of refugees from the flooded regions had swarmed into the cities, further complicating the food crisis...
...British began moving their prisoners off the island to safe territory. At midday they called for volunteer bakers among the captives, and presently found out how the 70th Division had won its nickname. The bakers at once produced their own white flour, began to turn out excellent white bread. It was one of the privileges granted to the 70th, an outfit made up exclusively of men with ulcers, indigestion and other stomach troubles...