Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bullets, rode about Havana at night firing into the air and were accused of shooting down both Oppositionists and bystanders in ruthless efforts to obey Chief Ainciart's order: "Break the strikes!' Tourist steamers, fearing to dock at Havana, passed up the port. Supplies of meat, bread, oils, beer and other Cuban necessities ran alarmingly low, while prices skyrocketed. With panic spreading, Cubans remembered that Mediator Welles delivered in Havana two months ago a message from the White House in which President Roosevelt said: "I am convinced that the restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary...
...named Kurt Schmidt, 27, a philology student at Konigsberg and a Nazi Storm Trooper. It was a good day for a sail-fresh breezes were blowing-and Student Schmidt thought he might stay up until afternoon, so he carried a bottle of drinking water, a few slices of black bread. He sailed south along a ridge 40 mi. or so, swinging back & forth to catch the up-currents that gave altitude, wheeled around and headed home again. Dusk fell, but breezes continued fresh. Student Schmidt thought he might as well keep on sailing. Idly he thought about endurance records...
...results was a workers' free university at Belleville, gave Hamp his chance. He left England's kitchens, headed home towards a rosy future. "Dazzled by my imagination, I was heading for a poverty which would grow greater hour by hour, for I no longer earned my daily bread...
...bluff in it all, of course. The classic example is Attorney-General Cummings' campaign against gold hoarding. It was never intended to be anything but bluff--God willing. How far can the New Deal go? It does not know. Over at agriculture they are threatening about unreasonable bread prices. It is an advanture, this threat. Bread has been picked because it affords a popular ground for such a campaign. But if it comes to excessive prices for automobiles or ships? No one knews. How far dare the threat be carried? The popular frame of mind and the courts must...
...restriction measures) touched $1.08½ for December delivery-jumped 23? a bushel in a week. Talk of a corner in rye by Dr. Edward A. Crawford (TIME, June 19) was resumed. Also there was talk of a rye shortage due to 1) expected use of more rye flour in bread as wheat prices rise; 2) expected large demand for rye by distillers. In one day 7,000,000 bu. of rye were sold. (Total U. S. rye crop is normally about 40,000,000 bushels.) Report was that, attracted by high prices, 600,000 bu. of Canadian rye had been...