Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy harmony." California-born 51 years ago, Albert Burns invented a lock for Model T Fords, sold 800,000. He worked in a tea and coffee store, directed a chamber of commerce, ran a wholesale business, managed a sanitarium and some textile mills, invented and marketed a successful bread-slicer. He joined the National Inventors Congress in 1928, became its paid president (at $3,600 a year) in 1931. His function is to aid, promote, protect, advise. Mr. Burns is proud when newspapers call him the "Nation's Gadget Chief...
...said they would steal bread for hungry children if they were certain not to be caught...
...Italy 9%; Germany 7%; Britain 5%; France 2.7%. Exulted Chief of the Central Statistical Administration of the National Economy Sautin: "A continuous growth of population is a law of socialism." Non-socialists guessed that sex laxness, the anti-abortion law, influx of peasants "running after their bread" and seeking work accounted for the urban gains which were the greatest...
...fourth man of the party had an entirely different outlook on the world. He, the son of a maker of French bread and pastry, had gone in to sit in conference with Europe's biggest three statesmen. The occasion should have crowned his career. But he came out morosely. He knew he had taken a terrific licking...
Hunger, and no bread...