Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving without a license, wrote to the court to explain that she neglected to renew her old one, "owing to the following duties: nursing an invalid son and a daughter, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, queuing, and also grappling with ration books, children's emergency cards, priority milk cards, bread units, laundry, chimney sweeps, window cleaners, all preliminary arrangements prior to moving to a new house, moving to new house, and all necessary preparations for the birth of my fourth child next month...
...Manhattan, some 30,000 marchers (the Daily Worker claimed 80,000) paraded for six hours. Banners shouted: "The Truman Way Is Not the U.N. Way" -"Buy Only Union-Made Bread." At Union Square, a crowd of 10,000 listened to shrill speeches, lustily sang Solidarity Forever...
Many different Symposium speeches, starting from widely diverging points, ended at this same central problem: the influence of New York's critics on the nation's music box-offices, and consequently on the lives of musicians. One suggested solution--musicians should be amateurs, and earn their bread by other means. Another--to decentralize American music in various ways, instituting more purely local artists, thereby cutting some tentacles off the New York critic-octopus. There were also countless proposals for improved criticism, for broadened criticism, for more criticism, and for less criticism...
...enough to enable Communists (whose propaganda equates "fascist" and "bourgeois") to charge the U.S with bolstering Italian reaction. To date, the one substantial result of last winter's $100,000,000 rehabilitation credit from the U.S. has been a $5,000,000 tobacco deal. Italians who think, beyond bread, about such matters as the Truman Doctrine cannot understand the U.S.: on the one hand, Washington opposes high German reparations to Russia and strikes a bold attitude in the Middle East, while on the other hand it stands pat on the Italian peace treaty which makes the Adriatic virtually...
Promised Land of Gold Fillings. Not Rome or Naples but New York, says Levi, was the capital city of these poverty-stricken Italians, who lived on an unvarying diet of black bread, garlic, olives, peppers, tomatoes. In 1935, while 1,200 Gaglianoese lived in Gagliano, 2,000 were living in New York. America was simultaneously the Promised Land and a steel-and-concrete hell; it was the prison house of cruel labor from which came marvelous scissors, razors, blue-bladed axes and dollar bills-the rich wasteland into which Gagliano's sons and husbands often disappeared without a trace...