Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communications cut, its food supplies, gone, its ammunition exhausted, the Loyalist Army disintegrated almost overnight into a disorganized rabble. As the Rebels pressed relentlessly on, a wild churning wave of soldiers and civilians, rushing for the border, rolled before them. Veterans of Belchite, Teruel, the Ebro campaigns carried their rifles, hauled machine guns and field pieces, even drove tanks up to the frontier, where they were confiscated. They were determined not to let General Franco capture any war weapons. At one point alone 4,000 were crossing the French border every hour. At another point a Loyalist Army band played...
...Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, echoed the advice of Sir Auckland Geddes. Wartime Minister of National Service, who three weeks ago told British housewives to keep at least a week's supply of food on hand. He also let it be known that special steps, of an unspecified nature, were being taken to insure the continuity of Britain's water supplies in case of air attacks...
...size of Connecticut. Some brigades had 120 men left out of a normal complement of 1,500. Some companies had only 25 rifles and no machine guns. And as a further sign of demoralization, behind it the People's Army left a large part of what stores of food and gasoline remained...
...President Pedro Aguirre, facing the first big job of his month-old Popular Front Government, took charge of the rescue work. Airplanes, many lent by U. S., French and German air lines, were used to ferry food and medical supplies. Two British cruisers, in Chilean waters for a friendship visit, began transporting medical supplies, evacuating refugees and injured. Greatest need was for medical supplies to prevent the spread of tetanus, typhoid, check gangrene. From their Canal Zone base, two U. S. Army bombers roared south loaded with serums. From Chile's neighbor, Argentina, started a fleet of rescue planes...
Reason for the 17-year record: Depression II cut imports, notably raw materials for manufacture, 36% to $1,960,528,000, while steadier business conditions abroad, plus demand for armaments and food, held U. S. exports at $3,094,095,000, a drop of only...