Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prices racked up new records almost, daily. Wheat set the pace. At Chicago, March wheat sprouted up all the way to $2.96½ a bushel, highest since 1917. (Most bakers started passing their higher costs along to consumers by boosting bread prices 1? a loaf.) Other grains climbed...
...bottom of a black hole, deeper than twice the height of the Empire State Building, a coal miner named Josef earned his daily bread this difficult winter. Fifteen European countries, including Germany, have a grim interest in Josef, for their economic revival is closely tied to the amount of coal which he and some 300,000 other miners win from the rich Ruhr mines. In the dust-choked gloom of the pit face TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth talked with Josef, trying to learn why the miners are producing only half as much as before...
...three Cabinet posts-the first for the comrades in South America. Of the three, Agriculture pleased the party most. The wretched lot of Chile's 500,000 landless campesinos invites Communism. For a day's work, the average field hand gets 35?, a large piece of hard bread, and, occasionally, a sack of beans. His home (on most farms) is a small, windowless, mud-&-thatch hut, with a dirt floor...
...executive council of the Polish Socialist Party was sent to a gold-mining camp in eastern Siberia. The work day was 12 to 15 hours long. Since the ground was frozen most of the time, the mining was done largely with crowbars and chisels. The size of the bread ration depended on the amount of work performed. Feeble, inefficient or unwilling workers were taken aside and shot...
...Facts show the tragic condition of University-attendants in these countries; on the whole they eat one-third of what an American college student consumes during the year. Next, what frame of mind are Americans seeking to instill in European students who are never too hungry to weight the bread before them alongside the future of their country or what they believe in? Is simple, vocal gratitude the sole aim of the effort? Does the American mentality ignore the psychology of charity so thoroughly that it would deem the American label on gift-food as the ultimate form of good...