Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Realizing that national prestige paid dividends. President Atatürk, with the driving force of a dictator, built up a modern, mechanized army. That made Turkey sought after by Germany, France and England, as a powerful Near Eastern ally. His Government doubled the country's railroad mileage, started sugar and textile factories, coal and iron industries to make Turkey more self-sufficient. He ordered electrification and reforestation programs and began to build a merchant marine. His policy of "Turkey for the Turks'' largely eliminated the foreign capital, dominant during the Sultans' time...
...material which would make almost any purely personal romance seem drab by comparison. Net result is proof that the cinema, less complete as an art than aeronautics as a science, has not in its parallel career reached the point of being able to present facts as facts instead of sugar-coating them with fiction...
...more than a year to each gnawing stomach of 900,000 Madrileños have been rationed only a few daily scraps of bread, a handful of rice, an occasional potato or orange, rancid olive oil, no sugar, mudlike coffee, little meat. Trees have been cut down, furniture broken up, destroyed houses and buildings whittled away to provide fuel for an undernourished population that feels now more than ever the wintry blasts that sweep down from the Guadarrama Mountains...
...three games now Harvard has come out at the beginning of the second half in none too certain fashion. In fact the first couple of minutes of the third periods have been rather gruesome thus far. Perhaps today will gnaw more oranges and munch more lumps of sugar in the mid-game respite...
...poison. Leftist chemists said they contained only "moral poison," called the bread bombings a "grotesque" gesture by aviators otherwise engaged in "assassinating women and children in defenseless towns." Grotesque or not, the bread shower was a pointed reminder that in Rightist Spain only a few nonessential items (tobacco, coffee, sugar) are scarce, while in overpopulated Leftist Spain the problem of foodstuffs is nearly as acute as that which faced Germany during the last year of the World War, is probably one reason why Leftist Premier Juan Negrin mentioned the possibility of mediation before the Spanish Parliament (see below...