Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BREAD AND WINE - Ignazio Silone - Harper...
...their labor paper. Ignazio took to the mountains, was sheltered by the Abruzzi, peasants for three years. His brother was imprisoned, died from a beating. Exiled near Zurich, Ignazio Silone now writes books about his native land which no Duce-fearing Fascist could possibly approve. In Fontamara (1934), in Bread and Wine Exile Silone yearns as bitterly over his redeemed country as all patriotic Italians used to yearn over Italia irredenta. Fascists will not like Bread and Wine. Everyone else will...
...rule of this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
With the Spanish Whites entered truck loads of bread. Munching Málagans were soon telling between mouthfuls how numbers of Spaniards have been saved fror pistol squads by the boldness of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bainbridge Norton of Memphis, Tenn...
...Depression. Gains were widest in capital goods industries like steel, whose markets contract and expand directly with the business cycle. After a study of 161 corporations, Standard Statistics estimated that earnings in the capital goods industries were up about 80%, in the consumer industries, about 40%. Bread & Meat-Standard Brands, Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Baking Powder, Chase & Sanborn Coffee) made $14,727,000 compared to a satisfying $12,744,000 in 1935. Ward Baking Corp. made $1,838,000 compared...