Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheat, which is the major item to be saved this year, can be conserved only by individual effort, Reynolds concluded. Wheatless days would be acceptable if bread remained available in the Dining Halls for dissenters; and any wheat saved could be shipped to Europe...
...plan finally decided upon, called this set-up "not feasible." His main objections, as stated to Lally later Friday afternoon, were (1) that it would be impossible to tell how much wheat was saved; (2) that the University would foot the bill, since men who passed up the bread would eat something more expensive, and (3) that it was impractical to ship the wheat itself to Europe...
...committee launched into a lengthy correspondence with Charles Lauckman. He returned a five question, sheet, the Council tossed in two more questions, looked at the poll and heaved it into the waste paper basket. Two more weeks of unhappy revisions followed and now a third poll dealing exclusively with bread, pie, and wheat cereals lies on the chopping block. A grand total of seven weeks to find out if Harvard wants to save food...
...hung on buildings. Materials and labor skills which could have made houses everyone needed were used to construct gay, quaint booths for tea street fairs, where felt-booted citizens who tired of street dancing in the light November slush could buy (at fantastic prices) champagne, vodka, soda pop, bread and sausage. Truck-borne roving players mimed and capered on eleven bunting-draped stages in public squares. Fifty-three bands washed the Kremlin's golden domes with music. For three days factory wheels were still, and bureaucrats mercifully stopped pushing their pens. And on the fourth day, hungover citizens, still...
...countryside because the Army cannot defend them, and carry out an offensive at the same time. And they wonder how they are going to live this winter crowded into mud huts, shanties and abandoned buildings on Government relief, which will provide them with less than a pound of bread and about 15? in cash a day. The huts in which they live, unlike the airfields, are not "winterized...