Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upper class even wealthier than before the civil war, particularly conspicuous in miserable Spain. While the poor queued up for their daily ration of uneatable bread, "the wealthy continued their pleasant custom of stopping off on their way home from Mass to consume some of the admirable Spanish éclairs or mille-feuilles...
...bread, for pride, for simple dignity...
...Thomas cried: "The Little Steel formula has never been a fair means of deciding what are proper wage increases." He demanded a 30% raise. > Growled John L. Lewis: "In March the coal industry wage negotiations will begin. . . . The men who mine the nation's coal will ask for bread. They will hope that a government bureaucrat will not hand them a stone." Mr. Lewis' bread: $2 a day increase for 450,000 bituminous miners...
...Bread from the Waters. In Chicago, students in an artificial-respiration class successfully applied artificial respiration to Mrs. Audrey Kettlewell, their teacher, who had collapsed while demonstrating artificial respiration...
...swelled to 9,000,000 (three times normal), was desperate. During much of last winter there was no regular water, gas or electricity supply. After the dogs and horses (all but a few saved for transport) were eaten, the people had to get along on a few slices of bread a day. Up to last summer 1,750,000 died of starvation, epidemics and air raids...