Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad workers were allowed to strike, he said, "hunger would stalk the United States, the whole political and economic system would be upset. . . and our influence in the world would be a laughingstock." There were limits to how far any law could be used when the public welfare was at stake. A railway strike would create "an extreme situation which society is not required to tolerate...
Because of the lost supplies, Mukden's 2,500,000 civilians faced slow death by hunger and disease. Cabled TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin after a look at the city: "You see the marks of the struggle in the taut, unsmiling faces on the streets. You see it in the meagerly equipped hospitals where acute tuberculosis has doubled. Rickets, twilight blindness, beriberi and other vitamin-deficiency diseases have become common...
...native sons, familiar with local conditions, win most of the battles for position in the social order. They force the D.P.s in the rat colony to accept the least desirable territories, where they lead a marginal existence, exposed to hunger and enemies...
...children is down 24%. In Italy alone, 2,000,000 children need extra rations, 220,000 have eye-destroying trachoma. Only 30% of Austria's children can be considered healthy; in Poland, 30% of the children under seven have rickets; 90% of Rumanian children have bad teeth. Tuberculosis, hunger's fellow traveler, is up everywhere: 1% of Europe's children have active tuberculosis, two-thirds of them are tuberculin positives. Among Austrian school children, tuberculosis has increased 35% between...
...Hahn-founded Outward Bound Sea School in Wales, 100 different boys come each month from schools, farms and factories throughout Britain, get to know something about "the sea, each other and themselves." At reviving Salem, 340 demoralized young Germans are learning democracy, fitness and "active Christianity" -though chronic hunger slows the pace...