Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...savage fight for Walcheren Island, key to Antwerp (TIME, Nov. 13), had an almost comic ending when fussy little Lieut. General Wilhelm Daser, commander of the Wehrmacht's 70th (White Bread) Division, suddenly made up his mind to surrender...
...that all men of the armed forces use an odd slang in which nothing is referred to by its right name. I can't speak for the Army, but so far as I have observed in the Marine Corps, a spade is a spade. Viz., potatoes are potatoes, bread is bread, catsup (when we have it) is catsup...
...fine German cameras, handsome Swiss watches), unwilling to sell for drachmas what little food they had. A fish seller would refuse several billion drachmas, but jump at the offer of some fresh olives in exchange for a fish. Three cigarets would buy more than cash in a market where bread was priced at 11 billions a pound, eggs at 15 billions apiece...
...foundation has conspired with 16 companies, including Standard Brands Inc., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Pet Milk Co., Parke, Davis & Co., to suppress competition in the manufacture & sale of vitamin D. They also, said antitrust, limited the potency of vitamin D used in the widely advertised "enriched" bread, milk and other foods, thus preventing such foods from competing with the regular vitamin-D products...
...performers with extremely experienced voices, the radio-famed McGees will doubtless roll up another million and a half dollars or so for RKO (at an outlay of some $450,000). Films such as theirs, fairly popular in big cities and beloved in the provinces, are aptly known as topnotch bread-&-butter pictures...