Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss Government had suspended the fights for the war's duration because the fighting cows when in training are fed white wine and bread and are not expected to produce much milk. Last week, thanks to peace, hundreds of cowbells in the passes leading to the high pastures tinkled a martial melody: tough Valaisan farmers and big Valaisan cows were heading for another rendezvous with destiny...
Many middle-class housewives had turned against Labor. Bread-rationing riots in Ulster last week were extreme symptoms of the dissatisfaction. Men were generally more patient, but they railed against the shortage of beer. Thirsty Britons organized and sent bicycle scouts into the countryside in search of still wet pubs; whenever one was found, word went back by carrier pigeons to friends who sped to the scene...
...great mass of city workers, Peron was both a smiling politico ready to backslap even convicts in the federal pen, and a gaucho St. George battling a reactionary dragon. Peron's "battle of the 60 days" had already frozen or reduced prices of four chief food staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government bought up local wheat at $5 a metric quintal, sold some...
...bushels, 28% better than average; and 1,090,092,000 bushels of wheat. There was even optimistic talk that, with good crops in Canada, France and other countries, the demand for food would ease and grain prices would come down. Meanwhile, the retail prices of everything made of grain, bread, syrups, etc. were bound to go up to match the sky-high wholesale prices...
Some people migh think that the middle of July is a funny time to start thinking about football, but the men who make that sport the source of their inflated bread and butter see unbalanced lines and T-formations even in the midst of their midsummer nights' dreams...