Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poison for Mrs. Attlee. At bottom, the crisis was economic. Britain was still a land of national hunger. British labor, especially the all-important miners, were simply not producing in sufficient volume. Britain was buying more goods abroad than she sold; the money with which to make up that deficit (the $3.75 billion U.S. loan) was running out much faster than it should; Britain had only $1 billion left and it was going fast. But suddenly from the steadily mounting pressure of impoverishment sprang a political crisis...
...despite their dulled protests, few U.S. citizens were pinched and most were living better, housing shortage and all, than in any other era. The national hunger for new automobiles was insatiable; in every city in the land people were paying secondhand dealers from $300 to $800 over list prices for cars which had been made "secondhand" by being driven around the block. Housewives kept on buying expensive cuts of meat. Baseball was having its biggest season...
...short life he had known nothing but hardship and hunger. Erich Kaniss was a small, silent, Berlin boy, with weary eyes in a thin, pinched face. He had been four when the war began. Now he was twelve...
...Erich was always hungry. His hunger was a gnawing, driving urge that was never stilled. Wandering about the ruins of Berlin, he dug bits of machinery out of ruins, collected scraps of tin and wire-the kind of treasures that boys everywhere collect. Now & then he found something that was useful to an adult. Sometimes he was able to trade his treasures for food-but never enough to still his hunger...
...When Frozen ("Get to the doctor . . . as soon as you can"). Printed in English and in Eskimo syllables (a system of sound-writing which looks something like shorthand), it has helpful hints on how to collect family allowances from the Government, and it tells how to avoid hunger ("aim carefully when you shoot"). But most of The Book of Wisdom is concerned with helping the Eskimo to keep healthy and clean. Excerpts...