Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep the prices down so folks can buy their bread...
...week, he studied art in London, where he lived chiefly on bread & milk. Later he changed his venue (to Manhattan), but not his diet. His animal drawings began to catch on. St. Nicholas magazine published some of his first output of animal stories...
...eleven men for whom this night held no dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...
Elliott Roosevelt peered ahead at life without price controls, reported back: "You will see bread at $15 a loaf." Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago, peeked around the atomic corner and saw "an era of leisure and plenty," but he was not happy. "If we are not all killed in the next few years," he declared, "we will be bored to death." George Santayana, 83-year-old poet-philosopher, now resident in Italy, guessed:"I won't live to see it, but I believe that Russia soon may dominate all of Europe - with Germany and France...
Most students considered it a wonderful idea--during wartime. For those unable to return to complete their full course or for students who planned to enter graduate school, war service credits were bread from the skies, but for others, accepting the credits means a further shortening of an education that has come to mean little more than a prescribed number of course credits. Members of the ROTC and NROTC programs are especially affected, since as many as five or six of their courses are little more than filler. Candidates for honors, equally hard hit by the ruling of the Administrative...