Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eldest of nine children of poor Italian immigrants, John Deferrari was forced to quit school to help support his family. In Boston, whose North End slums were all that he knew, young John took up father Giovanni's career. A fruit basket on his arm, he started peddling apples and oranges in the State Street financial district...
...bread was fine for her son; neighbors also found it fine. Like many Americans, they were tired of the mass-produced American bread scientifically refined until it is purified of almost all taste. At their urging, Mrs. Rudkin took eight loaves in a wicker basket to a nearby grocer. They were sold so fast that she set up a bakery of her own in the stable of her Pepperidge Farm, hired a neighbor girl, Mary Ference, to help her bake. In three months she had sold $2,500 worth of bread. By September 1938, the end of her first year...
...plan contains its own private nightmare. Should the European nations go ahead in their activities as outlined by the Secretary of State, should they place all their eggs in the Marshall basket, present their proposals to the United States, and should Congress then fail to back up the State Department with funds, the plan would be turned into a gigantic boomerang. The stock of the United States would sink to an as yet unplumbed depth. And this is by no means an inconceivable possibility, for the appropriations involved will be staggering. They will dwarf the two and a quarter billions...
...Poncet, also worried. He wrote: "What may be clear to an American élite may be less clear to the majority in Congress and, a fortiori, to the mass of electors. . . . There are plenty of people in America for whom Europe is a sort of lunatic asylum, a basket full of peevish crabs...
...printed directory told where everything could be found. On the way out, they were pleasantly surprised to find plenty of checkers who kept things moving. They were also surprised to discover how much they had bought; the light carts held 2½ times as much as the ordinary basket...