Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures wiped the smile off the Truman Doctrine. One showed Viennese workers and angry housewives massed before their old Imperial Palace; the sign they held aloft summed up their complaint in one German word which needed no English translation: "HUNGER...
...musine inundation of the rich, rolling wheatlands 200 miles north of Melbourne began last fortnight with no more warning than a tropical thunderstorm. Overnight, apparently from nowhere, the myriads of mice appeared. Too weak from hunger to walk, they crawled across fields and into houses, nesting in coat pockets and automobile cushions, devouring everything in sight, from kapok mattresses to sultanas on the vine. When nothing else could be found, the mice ate each other or nibbled at sleeping farmers. In desperation the farmers tied strings around the bottoms of their trousers...
...Keith returned to the U.S. with few illusions about human nature: "In camp we had all of the sins. . . . Some people ate in corners, stuffing themselves secretly, while others starved. ... A common enemy did not bind us together, hunger and danger did not do so, persecution did not, our sex did not. One thing only bound us to comparative peace: the lesson that life was hideous if we surrendered to our hatreds; more livable only when we tried to be decent...
This week the Commerce Department reported that in 1946 the U.S. exported $2,166 million worth of food-more than in any previous year except hunger-ridden 1919. Most of this ($1,354 million) was paid for, cash on the barrelhead. But $628 million was the U.S. contribution to UNRRA stocks, and $184 million went through Lend-Lease...
...full agreement with the House committee's views, the State Department promptly told Yugoslavia that it was ineligible for U.S. relief, either directly or through UNRRA, because its need was not great enough. If Marshal Tito had distributed food efficiently and nonpolitically last year, there would be no hunger in Yugoslavia now. Even if Tito wants to buy U.S. wheat, he will not get it until he convinces the U.S. that he will let non-Communists...