Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, police found the naked body of a stenographer named Frances Brown lying in a hotel bathroom with a 12-inch bread knife through her neck. Above her, scrawled in lipstick, was the legend: "For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I camnot [cannot] control myself...
...iron curtain [of censorship] is in the control of governments. It is the people in these areas who die for want of bread. ... It is the people-pitiful, suffering, starving millions of them facing what will probably be the blackest, cruelest winter since the age of plagues-from whom our aid would be withheld...
...prisoners of war returning from Russia were thin, unkempt, hungry, tired. Relief workers greeted them with what poor Italy could afford: a cup of minestrone, two small loaves of bread, an apple...
...payments are due to end, including the whopping $534 million to dairy farmers and the modest $7.4 million to prune growers. Government pencil pushers last week figured out just how much retail food prices could rise when subsidies are dropped. Their figures: milk will go up 1.3? a quart; bread 1? a loaf; cheese 4.8? a lb.; pork 4.4? a lb.; prunes 4.2? a lb.; flour...
...Bread will no longer be rationed after Nov. 1. Cake is available again at the pâtisseries. Tobacco rations are up 50%-although the daily supply is still only five cigarets per smoker. Taxis are trickling back to the boulevards - although only holders of priority cards, such as expectant mothers and war invalids, may ride. The clothing supply is tight, particularly for men: next year there will be a new suit for every third Frenchman, an overcoat for every tenth. But soap is no longer sand-and-clay; it lathers...