Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breakfast table his average wife joins him, points out that "more than 50 tax collectors take 2? of the dime they paid for the loaf of bread." In the course of the day the Taxpayer counts 1,200 taxes, his wife...
...supported in such comfort that they lose all desire to find jobs, improve their circumstances. Last week in Seattle, scrawny Ester Hilda Olson, 33, confessed that she had bashed in the head of her pretty, 16-year-old daughter Rose with an axe, cut her throat with a bread knife, buried her in a thicket near their shack. Explained Mother Olson: "I thought I was doing Rose a kindness by killing her. I was tired of living like an animal and raising her that way. I've been on relief, getting $10 a month, for a year...
...most readers, Bligh's story ends after he had been placed in an open boat with 18 men, "150 lb. of bread, 16 pieces of pork, each weighing 2 lb., 6 quarts of rum, 6 bottles of wine ... 28 gallons of water" and set adrift. Actually his career was only beginning when he reached the island of Timor 41 days later. A popular hero on his return to London, after "a voyage of the most extraordinary nature that ever happened in the world," he sailed again to the South Seas, fought in the battle of Camperdown, was driven...
Last winter when thousands of men were working at Passamaquoddy Dam in Maine, the U. S. Government contracted with bakers for 500 pies and 800 loaves of bread a day. When Congress denied further funds for 'Quoddy. thousands of men were laid off until only a corporal's guard was left. Six pies and eight loaves were all this remnant could consume in a day. Since New Deal regulations failed to provide for distributing food to the poor, the balance of the daily order went to the garbage heap and "Farmer Ed Pottle of Perry, who keeps...
Boiling mad, the Democratic National Committee burned up the wires to 'Quoddy to get the facts. The War Department, in Charge of the Maine project, issued denials. Army officers declared that only no loaves of bread a day had been purchased at 'Quoddy in July, denied that any pie had ever been purchased, got an affidavit from William Doyle, 'Quoddy's garbage contractor, who solemnly swore: "At no time have I ever seen pie in the garbage or swill...