Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those trying to take more meal than given to them...
...Meal will be given twice a day. One plate only to one prisoner. The prisoners called by the guard will gice out the meal quick as possible and honestly. The remaining prisoners will stay in their places quietly and wait for your plate. Those moving from their places reaching for your plate wihtout order will be heavily punished. Same orders will be applied in handling plates after meals...
...larger incomes a five per cent levy is not heavy enough, (2) It burdens the poorest families most, taxing as low as the subsistence wage of $12 a week, $600 a year. In this income area there is scarcely enough to keep a family alive. A third meal a day should not be taxed away, or nearly so. (3) It has the worst elements of a sales tax. The five per cent rate is not graduated according to income. (4) It is a tax on gross income with no deductions allowed of any kind, such as heavy hospital expenses...
Swedish Snaps. The polar bears in Stockholm's Scansen have not had their full rations of raw meat for three years. Neither have the Swedes had their sill & snaps (herring & aquavit) as often as before. They have managed to maintain their national Thursday evening meal of pea soup and pancakes-and they have managed to stay...
...from a tour of the stricken areas. In Loyang he saw bundles of leaves being sold to refugees for food, a dollar a bunch. Children's bellies were bloated and distended with such Foodstuffs. Sometimes starving families collect all remnants of food in their homes, eat their last meal and then commit suicide. While the Bishop was visiting one village, a farmer gathered his family round him, fed them their last full meal and then told them he had poisoned the food they had just eaten...