Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 80 Congressmen- and some 180 free riders-sat down with tieless, sport-shirted Bill Jack, ate seafood cocktail with Russian dressing, tiny brown-bread-&-cheese sandwiches, terrapin soup, breast of capon and Virginia ham, potatoes au gratin, lettuce and grapefruit salad, ice cream, demitasse. Well-fed-a few grumbled because there was no liquor-they listened to Lobbyist Jack's proposition...
...Rebuttal. The retailers, whose bread is buttered on the side of selling more goods, naturally thought this kind of talk dangerous nonsense. Their official rebuttal came from the American Retail Federation Chairman Fred Lazarus Jr.* Said he: "The essence of reconversion is continuous employment." No manufacturer has a "vested right" in tomorrow's market because of past performance...
...Having asked the Congress for a loaf of bread to take care of this war," he went on, he might have been content with "this small piece of crust" if it had not contained "so many extraneous and inedible materials...
...weekly entertainment. "Fortunately there is plenty of work. . . . Work is satisfying. . . . There's a big crew on the hill . . . getting out firewood for the stoves, good healthy outdoor labor." Further, the camp was "on a mountainside . . . with an incredibly beautiful view. . . ." He remarked: "Looking forward to eating wheat bread, cheese, ice cream, steaks again, but don't really miss them. . . . My health is as good or better than it ever was." He swore: "We never feel cooped up.'' Everything considered, said Halsema, Camp Holmes deserved the label: "The Orient's finest concentration camp." It sounded...
...Broadway, sat around in automats dissecting the drama with an aspiring young friend named Moss Hart. Later he sat at the feet of "the master," Jed Harris. Harris produced Wonder Boy, and Wonder Boy produced Hollywood offers. But Hollywood (Craig's Wife, Yellow Jack), for Chodorov, is purely bread-&-butter...