Word: peat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared an old familiar face last week. Its somewhat-forgotten owner was Major General John Hay Beith, better known to U.S. readers by his pen name: Ian Hay. Author Hay's The First Hundred Thousand was the biggest best-seller among World War I war books until Private Peat and Arthur Guy Empey's Over the Top went over...
...faced cold and hunger as winter's first heavy snows fell last week. Russia has lost more than half its coal mines, 23% of its cultivated land. Fuel, food and clothes go to the Red Armies first. From Leningrad to the Pacific, women, oldsters and schoolchildren were cutting peat, hauling logs, straining every muscle to make good Russia's losses. Their achievements...
...Textile mills, powerhouses and other industries burned peat and wood instead of coal. Thousands of civilians were mobilized to wield spades in the inexhaustible peat bogs of the Urals and central Russia...
City children were drafted for farm work. Komsomol boys & girls mobilized for tree cutting to replenish the lost coal resources in the Don. Peat and refuse were burned in furnaces. The scythe and sickle reappeared in grainfields. Horses (once-scorned symbols of kulak individualism) replaced tractors. A trade-union investigator was acclaimed a national hero when he found enough rusting scrap metal to make "450 light and medium tanks...
...found, the Germans released their rage in the volleys of firing squads. In Norway the invaders confiscated 80% of the herring catch. Living now on herring and seed potatoes, the Norwegians were told by Vidkun Quisling that next winter they will eat only bread made of fine sawdust and "peat flour...