Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gottwald's party got 40% of the vote in Czechoslovakia's last election (TIME, June 10, 1946). Since then he had, in fact, been losing ground. Soviet failure to deliver promised goods, particularly bread grain, on promised schedule, increased the heat and frequency of criticism leveled at Gottwald and the Kremlin. The swing away from Gottwald reached a peak when the Social Democrats, by secret ballot, bounced their pro-Communist leader Zdenek Fierlinger out of his job and installed Bohumil Lausman in his place. No rabid antiCommunist, Lausman nevertheless believes that Czechoslovakia should come first. The seams...
Czech Communists promptly began wrapping their promised bread with Communist threats. Communist Party Secretary Richard Slansky announced: "If anyone now dares to criticize the Soviet Union it will be a crime against the state." Communist Minister of Information Vaclav Kopecky more ominously added: "From now on anti-Communism is actually high treason." Retorted the National Socialist Svobodny Zitrek: "What are the Communists threatened by? Nothing but democracy...
...removed to the controlled economy of an experimental cage and given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader did not like); yellow chips were worthless...
...noon on the range, Bob Kleberg and the vaqueros sit down in a range shack, where a freshly killed calf has been barbecued, or gather at the chuck wagon for smoke-tanged frijoles, slabs of pork, biting hot wild peppers, bread baked in dutch ovens over wood coals, coffee and molasses (eaten with the meat...
...Kleberg thinks Americans can tighten their belts to help feed the world, because: "We eat too much anyway, especially bread. If necessary we can eat more potatoes, rice or other types of starch, to save wheat. At any rate, we should waste less." But he does not think that renewed controls would increase the food supply, because "you don't get more food by restrictions." In the present atmosphere of uncertainty of what the Government intends to do about meat, cattlemen cannot plan ahead. "It takes four years to make a steer," said Kleberg. "That requires some long-range...