Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denver papers spread the story on Page One. Soon other tales of brutality came to light. A former state employe charged that a guard's kick had caused the death of another Golden boy last spring. There were stories of beatings, dark cells, bread-&-water punishment at the teen-age reformatory in Buena Vista...
...being tied hand & foot by a mass of incoherent legislation, miles of red tape, and a never-ending stream of forms. You list Labor's so-called achievements-take a look at the other side of the picture. For the first time in our history we have bread rationing; conditions are worse than in wartime; you can't buy a new pane of glass or paint for your porch without filling in a form; under Socialism this country is falling into a state of degeneracy from which it may never rise...
...Turkey, a wealthy American tourist, recoiling from the native bread, which was flat as a bathmat, was overjoyed at the sight of crisp, crusted, American-style loaves. He sought out the baker, found he was a Protestant missionary named Cyrus Hamlin. Missionary Hamlin convinced wealthy, grateful Tourist Christopher Robert that the Turks needed education even more than better bread, talked him into endowing the first U.S. college in the Near East...
Minister of Food Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was also squirming unhappily over the bitter bread-rationing controversy. Proudly he had announced that the first three weeks of rationing achieved a 33% saving of flour. Cried the Tory press and the National Association of Master Bakers: misrepresentation. They pointed out that holidays always made August a low flour consumption month and that housewives had simply used up back stocks. While the people concluded that the truth lay midway between Strachey's optimistic figure and the bakers' gloomy 10% estimate, they remained unconvinced that bread rationing had ever been...
While he was earning his bread & butter ($263,000) last year, President Charles P. Skouras of National Theaters Corp. also managed to earmark some money for luxuries. On a proposed resale of some National Theaters stock which he bought two years ago for $353,125, Charlie Skouras was all set this week to take in a toothsome profit...