Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters of Milk, Fire, Bread, Sugar have disappeared...
...theory that a company's management should consult the will of its owners. The owners managed to ask a few simple questions (what are working conditions in the firm's mills?), a few naïve questions (what can you do to change the taste of bread?), a few indiscreet questions (what do Wheaties' baseball broadcasts cost?), but seldom a question that made real business sense about the dollars-&-cents policies of the company. The management provided some discussion of generalities, including "sound economic ideas" and "costly experiments with business," but what most stockholders seemed to understand...
...Herald ("Wanted-Jobs for 15 Good Salesmen"), followed up with paid announcements on three local radio stations. This unusual solicitude had unusual results: last week ten of the good salesmen had permanent jobs, five were still scratching their heads over four to five offers each. Nebraska Power's bread cast on the waters floated home in yeasty loaves of publicity, community good will...
Stories of unsolidarity among Allied troops inevitably trickled into Paris at the heels of men home on this war's first furlough. Metropolitan troops from Tunis were said to have been in a state of near mutiny ever since their arrival in France, heaving bread and canned corned beef at their officers, obliging the French to keep them surrounded by a constant guard. The 31st French infantry, after marching 120 kilometres (72 mi.) in three days, refused to march the fourth day, threw their arms into ditches, sat down in the road. They were not punished...
...They earn a minimum salary of $150 a week. (But it's a job in which a couple of lousy breaks might end a career.) They are suspicious characters to the public, which regards them as a kind of licensed liar who cooks up tall tales. Actually, their bread & butter depends on being strictly truthful. The newspapers are their lifeblood, and as Press Agent William Fields once said, "An editor who has been taken in by a press agent never forgets the incident-and shouldn't." A publicity man's style may be tropical, lush, mendacious...