Word: bakeshop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite these measures millions of Frenchmen found themselves without baguettes. In desperation some turned to their grocery stores, distastefully buying packages of biscotte, square slices of Zwieback. Others resorted to stronger action. In Paris irate customers heaved bricks through bakeshop windows. In the town of Cauterets in the Pyrenees Mayor Charles Fourtine, despondent over the insults hurled at him by angry citizens who felt that it was up to him to keep the town adequately supplied with bread, climbed a power pylon and killed himself by grasping a 100,000-volt high-tension wire...
...Eliot Bakeshop...
...main kitchen on which all the units of the University dining hall system depend is the bakery, underneath Eliot House. Each of the two giant 10-shelf ovens, which were installed in 1946-47, are capable of baking 120 loaves of bread in one hour. In all, the bakeshop, under the supervision of Mrs. Frances Sweeney, bakes 500 leaves of bread a day. In addition, the bakery makes cookies, pies and rolls...
...madness? Pont-Saint-Esprit speculated that the village idiot had hexed Baker Briand's flour, that the flour had been packed in fertilizer sacks, that rats in the grain elevator had contaminated the flour. The police knew better. They had traced the flour back from Briand's bakeshop through the government-controlled flour depot to a mill near Poitiers, nearly 300 miles away...