Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia, whose need is even greater. Restaurants have not served real butter for months, and portions of margarine are half the size of a postage stamp and nearly as thin. Bread is still plentiful, but last week a National Loaf was introduced, consisting of one-quarter white flour and three-quarters whole wheat. Nearly all milk is reserved for children, grownups being allowed only three pints weekly...
...half years ago. But Lord Woolton, a successful department-store tycoon before he became Food Minister, knows that it might be fatal to dig into surpluses now. Said he last fortnight: "We are doing our best to keep you alive until the war is over. You will get thin but we are doing better than the Germans." (Actually most Britons are already thinner - as much as ten pounds...
...German naval strategy had partly brought about this change, but only partly. Her submarines had forced the Allied fleets to spread themselves thin, searching for the answer to a vast global problem of logistics that had consistently kept the superior surface force on the defense. Germany had partly brought the change about by starting to build her surface fleet during the starvation days of the Weimar Republic, and keeping up the program even when the pinch of war put the emphasis on U-boats...
...biggest part of the change had been brought about by the Jap. He had engaged the mighty U.S. Fleet, but in the Pacific; and from his coldly brilliant attack on Pearl Harbor to his thrust into the Indian Ocean he had stretched the U.S. Fleet thin, halfway around the world. More than that, he had snatched the British Far Eastern bases, and was now sucking British units toward India to head off the final rupture of the Empire. Meanwhile the Italians, who still had nuisance value, were-with the help of German airmen-holding other great British units...
...Lend-Lease shipments made the 3,900-mile trip to Britain, got tougher when the supply lines stretched 5,000 miles to Russia and Africa, reached the limits of toughness when the Far East blew up, 10,000 miles away. To serve all these routes there is only a thin line of poky, fat-bellied ships-a line that gets thinner as the routes get longer and enemy subs sock home their war heads...