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...peace-time values to war-time expediency. For it certainly is expedient that no member of '42 be forced to quit Harvard without a diploma, after seven-eighths of his work is completed. This is all the more true since the last half-year, after divisionals, is a grand loaf for most...
...required ingredient of the new flour, will not be ready for almost a year; 2) enriched flour is not as rich in minerals and vitamins as whole grain; 3) to keep up his vitamin BI requirement from this source alone, a person would have to eat almost a whole loaf of enriched bread every day (of the non-enriched white bread, he would have to eat three to four loaves); 4) the amount of vitamins available to put into bread may just now be seriously curtailed by shipments to Britain; 5) natural flour goes a third of a way longer...
...honors student, sans thesis and sans final examinations, the second half of the Senior year is a loaf. Three hour exams and a general examination early in May are the only hurdles between him and his diploma. On the last day of generals, all his formal academic endeavor comes to an end. Because he writes no thesis, his college career has endured little longer than three and a half years...
Rationing in both occupied and unoccupied France was already tightened to the limit. With his daily food card a Frenchman could buy each day only half a loaf of bread, a chunk of meat the size of a half dollar, a few crumbs of cheese, enough potatoes for five slices if fried (and if he had something to fry them in), less than enough sugar to sweeten a cup of unobtainable coffee, less than enough butter to fry an egg (if he could find...
Crystalline thiamin, which is vitamin BI, together with iron and nicotinic acid, will be generally restored to white flour by millers this month. Cost: two-tenths of a cent per pound loaf. The British Government ordered thiamin into bakers' recipes in July 1940. But Britons eat much more bread than Americans, get a more useful dose of B1 to buck up their war-strained health...