Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy the connection between UNRRA aid and the kind of politics that is played for keeps was clearer than in most other countries. When LaGuardia told Premier Alcide de.Gasperi that world food prospects did not justify a recent increase in the bread ration. De Gasperi and his Christian Democratic colleagues made speeches emphasizing the relation between living standards and the Communist campaign to discredit democracy...
...average 9,000 lire a month, now has to pay 3,000 lire for two pairs of flimsy shoes, or one gallon of olive oil, or 30 Ibs. of flour. In answer to LaGuardia, De Gasperi said that strikes and riots had forced him to give the people more bread...
...Tory battle cry was "Bread!" Winston Churchill stumped for the Conservative candidate in the Bexley by-election (one of three held in Britain last week). "In the darkest days of war we managed to keep [bread rationing] from you," cried Churchill. "Socialism means queueing...
This was the typical Tory line, and it was only partially effective. Rebellious British housewives and bakers submitted to bread rationing, and the Labor candidates won the by-elections. But the margin of victory had been narrowed. The coal and steel workers of Pontypool, Monmouthshire rejected 24-year-old "Workingman Tory" Peter Welch (his father is a local coal merchant who still drives his cart through town) by 14,198 votes, a 26% loss for Labor since last year's national election. Labor also won only limited victories in the whitecollar, middle-class suburb of Bexley (loss since...
Since the days of the Spanish occupation the flat rice paddies of Central Luzon have been the Philippines' main bread basket and bitterest bone of contention. Generations of Filipino landlords and tenant farmers have battled over how the crops should be divided. Always the result has been the same. From each carnage of broken heads emerged fewer and richer landlords, more and poorer croppers...