Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bread & Wine. Most of the strike wave was in support of C.G.T.'s drive for a minimum wage of 7,000 francs ($59) a month. Many of the 1,300,000 Government employees (before the war there were 700,000) make less, and the raise would cost the French taxpayer 874 millions a year...
PRICES IN FRANCS Bread Milk Wine (1 kilo) (1 liter) (1 liter...
...just "another emergency," or another group of starving people, but for students like ourselves who, possibly even more than we, will be the policy makers, the planners, and the leaders of a world in which we must spend our days. We can think about the crust of bread symbolizing 900 calories a day, but let's think far more intently on whether we are to keep alive this vital force-about the only optimists left alive in Europe or Asia-or let it die, and with its death, let tumble the victory of progress over cruelty and degradation...
Banjos and folk ballads are bread, butter and life to Pete Seeger, erstwhile member of the Class of 1940 who will return to Cambridge in a free, informal recital for the Food Relief Committee this afternoon in Emerson D at 5 o'clock...
...streamed through the plushy corridors of the Grand Hotel, where the immigration commission was set up. After a few days of this, the management brushed them out through the revolving door towards the rainy Piazza, dell' Esedra. Here, under the pampered ilex trees, they waited their turn, munched bread and cheese, lounged against the new Buicks and Chryslers of hotel patrons who found Europe comfortable enough...