1919
Joseph Campbell, a wholesale fruit and vegetable
vendor, and Abraham Anderson, a commercial
canner and packer, form the firm of Anderson &
Campbell in Camden, New Jersey. This would one
day become Campbell Soup Company.
World War II restrictions cut deep into every American pantry
as federal officials announced that sliced bread would be
rationed on this day in history, Jan. 18, 1943.
"I should like to let you know how important sliced bread is to
the morale and saneness of a household," distraught mother
Sue Forrester of Fairfield, Connecticut, claiming to speak on
behalf of America’s housewives, lamented in a New York Times
letter to the editor.
Wartime rationing had already caused severe restrictions on
the nation’s household food supply.
Basic resources were devoted in ever-growing volume to the
war effort in 1943, as the tide of battle turned and the U.S. and
its Allies went on the offensive across the vast expanse of two
oceans.
Bread rationing marked the depths of sacrifices on the home
front.
Young boy with a war ration book at a supermarket, as
children were taught the facts of point rationing during
the war.
After a two-month ordeal, the expedition of British explorer
Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find
that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded
them by just over a month. Disappointed, the exhausted
explorers prepared for a long and difficult journey back to
their base camp.
Weather on the return journey was exceptionally bad, two
members perished and Scott and the other two survivors
were trapped in their tent by a storm only 11 miles from
their base camp. Scott wrote a final entry in his diary in
late March. A search party discovered their frozen bodies
eight months later. In his final journal entry, Scott wrote,
"We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker,
of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but
I do not think I can write more…For God’s sake look after
our people."
Edward Adrian Wilson, Robert Falcon Scott, Lawrence
Oates, Henry Robertson Bowers and Edgar Evans at
the South Pole.
