Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soaking the Nation. Specifically the 28 emergency decrees signed by President Lebrun as immediately effective provide: ¶Reduction of pensions of war veterans (except those heavily disabled) by 100%. ¶ Reduction of the State-controlled price of bread by about 1/5?a Ib. ¶Reduction of gas and electricity rates by 5%. ¶Reduction of State Railway employes' pay by 10%. Other State employes receive cuts of 10% for those receiving over 10,000 francs ($660) yearly; 5% for those between 10,000 and 8,000 ($528) francs; and 3% for those between 8,000 and 5,000 francs...
...vegetables are cooked. Remove garlic and herbs, and rub through fine hair-sieve. Return to clean stewpan, correct for seasoning. Bring slowly to the boil, while thickening with a little cornflour mixed with cold water, then add a pinch of castor sugar and serve with crouton of fried bread. A little seed tapioca may be added as a garnish, but must be added and cooked before the soup is thickened...
...Paris, M. Cedard supplied a royal garden party tea menu with characteristic corrections in Her Majesty's own hand. She struck off jam, thus making a double saving, since the omission greatly reduced her guests' appetite for bread & butter. Another saving Her Majesty shrewdly made possible by decreeing that ices should be served only if the afternoon proved extremely hot. Finally, though the Royal Family's own edibles are provided from the kitchens of Chef Cedard, their tea guests are fed by Lyons, cheapest London chain-store caterers...
...surplus wheat from Dominion farmers and, after a little good-humored waiting, sell it abroad at its own price. Trouble was that Canada does not control the wheat export market single handed. While the pool sat on its wheat waiting for the right price, European bread-eaters bought their flour elsewhere, notably in Argentina, or turned to cheaper substitutes like rye, barley, potatoes...
...plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly on maize and mandioca bread, exporting yerba maté tea, tinned meat and tannin from the Gran Chaco's quebracho tree...