Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that can be done to make home life pleasanter is a distinct contribution . . . to the highest spiritual values of life." As their contribution to Better Homes Week the President & Mrs. Hoover with six friends ate a meal (split pea soup, meat & rice loaf; baked potatoes, cabbage, carrot salad, lemon bread pudding) that cost 23.6¢ a plate, cooked and served by Girl Scouts at their Little House in Washington...
...from not knowing how to eat wheat are the Chinese. Many miles of noodles (mien), fried, boiled, cooked with egg, chicken, beef or pork, are lifted annually by Chinese chopsticks, slithered and sucked into Chinese mouths. North of the Yangtze Kiang steamed bread (mantos), made of wheat flour, is a chief part of the diet. In Yenching University dining halls, 128 Cantonese boys eat rice, 300 Northerners eat bread, all eat noodles...
...England [with its Dole] is the only land," he cried, "where unemployed men and women are not standing in bread lines, eating at soup kitchens! In America there are 8,000,000 unemployed, in Germany 5,000.000, in France...
...fuel coal. They never see any U. S. cash. The companies pay them with company scrip, metal tokens good only at company stores. At these stores a 75? sack of flour costs 90? in scrip. A 30? public cinema costs 45? in scrip. The mine families subsist on potatoes, bread, beans, oleomargarine. Once or twice a week they have sowbelly. Because the companies will not let them keep cows, fresh milk even for babies is unknown. When miners die, the companies charge for their burial, and the oldest son inherits his father's debt to the company. Most...
...supremely tragic to see strong men begging for nickels on the streets of this city when down in Georgia and South Carolina there is food going to waste. . . . The Negroes on the farms in the South are happy. There are no bread lines there. However, it appears that those who said goodbye to the farm and moved to the cities have fallen upon evil days. They need to be told of the opportunities that await them...