Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill which will cause the distribution to the needy of 4,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat through the Red Cross. The Red Cross will have the grain milled and should it all be used for human consumption it would make 2,480,000,000 loaves of bread. ¶The President signed a resolution making $10,000,000 available for the formation of agricultural credit corporations through the Secretary of Agriculture...
...would pay the Treasury 2% of the wholesale price of his product. Undoubtedly this tax would be passed along indirectly to the retail consumer. To make the tax as broad and impartial as possible, the Ways & Means Committee talked of exempting from its provisions only raw or unprocessed food, bread, milk, farm seeds, fertilizer, perhaps the cheapest kind of clothing. The great merit of such a tax. it was argued, was that it bore down on all industries alike. Unlike the excise taxes proposed for automobiles, phonographs, radios, telephones, et al., it did not squeeze just a few large enterprises...
...Reginald Marsh is not a lady's painter. Like Hogarth, he takes crowds for his subject, vulgar, sweating, bestial crowds. He likes to see burlesque shows, dance marathons, bread lines, bathing beaches. He draws them with a line that approaches the British master in brilliance but with a color that is still as crude as his subjects. All his sympathies are reserved for locomotives. Wrote the New York Evening Post...
After the Tsar's abdication the Lancers joined up with Kerensky, fought with him until Communist propaganda brought the Russian troops to mutiny. The White officials made long speeches about patriotism and honor. The Red propagandists said three words: "Peace, Bread and Land." "They knew the people. . . . They whispered three words, then waited three months, then acted." Outlawed, the Lancers tried to win their way back to Poland, hid in the forests, finally had to desert their beloved horses and scatter. Boleslavski took shelter with a mad woman who thought he was her dead husband returned from...
...drizzle. An Oklahoma band played "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You." "We're All for Alfalfa Bill," said a scrawled note thrown out by the engineer of a Katy train speeding through Collinsville. Governor Murray was presented with a quilt on which had been embroidered his "Bread, Butter, Bacon, Beans" slogan. Unveiled was a 16-ft. monument in his honor, with a large photograph embedded under glass and inscribed: Born in Collinsville...