Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scored in the 1905 game with Carlisle College?--Mitchell naturally directed his missive to the H.A.A. But they didn't know either. They did, however, do the logical thing. They came to 14 Plympton Street, where, sandwiched in among old volumes of the CRIMSON, they found Mitchell's bread and butter: a summary of the game. Like any reputable newspaper, the CRIMSON knows the answers...
...Hemisphere policies, its standoffish attitude toward Argentina. The Blancos would like to "unite with Perón for a political, economic and social revolution sweeping the entire American Continent." Naturally, Perón was aiding his friends. He had crimped wheat shipments so that Uruguayans ate black bread last week. The inference was obvious: vote Blanco and get white bread. To promote the idea. Perón had reportedly funneled into Uruguay 2,000 of his strong-arm boys...
When Pertini made his surprising report, the Socialist party executive committee voted unanimously for joint action with the Reds. Even Socialist leader Ignazio Silone, an ex-Communist whose novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) are magnificent tracts against both Communism and Fascism, went along with Pertini. Explained Silone: "The greatest danger to Italian democracy today is not Communism. It is neo-Fascism...
What was the "progressive movement"? Was it progressive to seek to shorten bread and soup lines by paying for the raising of less wheat, corn, sugar, and pigs? Was it progressive to array class against class in a theretofore classless nation? Was it progressive for the administration to make international commitments secretly? Was it progressive to place in the hands of a few men the power to halt production and paralyze transport? Is it progressive so to restrict industry through myriad conflicting controls that the machine which armed the anti-axis world cannot today supply the essential needs...
...Henry Ford I discovered the soybean. Soon he was passionately convinced that it would work brave new industrial miracles. Before long, dumfounded visitors at Ford's drank soybean milk, ate soybean butter spread on soybean bread, came away convinced that old Henry would soon be turning out a soybean auto...