Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vatican-to whose service the Jesuits are specially dedicated-also anticipates material as well as spiritual contingencies, has just moved one step nearer self-sufficiency by building a grist mill behind its walls. It has had its own stocks of wheat and bread grains for some time, will grind only for the residents of 109-acre Vatican City...
...down the U.S. last week spread a fantastic rumor: bread, the one foodstuff of which the harassed U.S. consumer had every reason to expect an abundance, may soon be scarce. Despite elevators glutted with a two-year supply of wheat, Kansas Senator Clyde M. Reed warned that the nation may expect a bread shortage in 30 to 60 days...
Last week there were riots in Teheran, Persia. Ostensibly they occurred because of a bread shortage; actually bread was an incidental question. The riots were the work of Axis agents, attempting to disrupt the key city on the Allied lifeline between the Persian Gulf and Russia. The outburst died under the guns of soldiers and police...
...violence started with a students' demonstration for educational reforms in Majlis (Parliament) Square. Provocateurs mingled with the demonstrators, gave them new slogans about bread. The students broke into the Parliament building, smashed furniture before the police evicted them. Then what had been a crowd of demonstrators slowly turned into...
...every part of Teheran Axis agents egged on the people, sending them down to Parliament to agitate for bread. Orators harangued the crowd, worked it up with cries to oust the government. By evening the mob was marching down the main thoroughfare, Stamboul Street, ready for physical violence...