Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold night in 1931, his shabby clothing buttoned tightly about his short, diabetic body, a derelict named Driscoll lay on the floor of a boxcar in Seattle's railroad yards. For days he had hunted work. Weary, he had turned to bread lines, soup kitchens, listened to soap-box orators on corners of the Skidroad.* Deep into his dulled consciousness sank the speakers' catchphrases, their shouts of plenty for everyone, taunts at Big Business, cries that Capitalists were to blame for Derelict Driscoll's wrinkled belly...
...last week: "Extortionate and confiscatory taxation will mean . . . devastation of business, paralysis of industry. . . ." Again the motion picture industry has threatened to move out, and assorted tycoons are talking about emigrating to Nevada, Hawaii, Florida, anywhere. Two nationally famous Californians have grown particularly articulate. Wrote Novelist Charles Gilman Norris (Bread, Seed, Pig Iron) in a letter which was printed in California papers of the sympathetic Hearst chain...
...Manchuria, a staple food for Chinese and Japanese. In the U. S. some 3,000,000 acres were planted to soy beans last year. Most of the U. S. crop goes into forage. But some is made into sauce for chop suey, some into cooking oil, some into bread for diabetics. Henry Ford's chemist, R. H. McCarroll, foreseeing industrial uses of soy beans, got Mr. Ford to plant 10,000 acres to soy beans last year, 30,000 this year. From soy bean oil Mr. McCarroll's assistants make lacquer for Ford motor cars. They claim that...
...third of every litter (from six to twelve whelps). The rest die naturally or are killed because they show no promise. No racing & coursing greyhound ever runs loose. It spends its first year in an enclosure, then goes into intensive training on a diet of hamburger, bran, spinach and bread once a day. Its track life is three or four years...
...Here with a loaf of Bread beneath the Bough...