Word: larders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denmark. The day Hitler's troops move into the Danish larder, rolling comfortably over the undefended frontier, disembarking at ease on the quays of a capital that has just surrendered to the mere threat of annihilation from the air, a hearty welcome will be extended to them...
...extraordinarily prescient book called Rats in the Larder, written in 1938 -mostly before the Munich Agreement had made every European journalist a Cassandra-TIME'S Copenhagen Correspondent Joachim Joesten gave two reasons why Germany was certain to overrun Denmark early in the next war. Last week, which found Correspondent Joesten a fugitive in Sweden, his prediction and his reasons were upheld almost word for dire word. One of the reasons was strategic (see p. 19). The other was economic: Denmark is the larder of hungry Europe...
...took nearly 60%, Germany about 20%. Britain paid in sterling, Germany in credits, promises, and in blackmail (for instance, Germany forced Denmark to accept credits in coal, then, because Denmark was already oversupplied with British coal, charged storage on the undelivered coal). That Germany expected to get the Danish larder for nothing was indicated by what Danes were forced to accept for their goods-script money called Reichskreditkassen-scheine, carried by the invading troops...
...agent of the society looked into the larder of one middle-aged couple, found "two apples, one quarter of a melon, and about a cup of beans." Said the wife: "If we could just once get enough...