Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Market debate was only one of testy old Konrad Adenauer's reasons for keeping Erhard at home. This is election year in West Germany, and two weeks ago the nation's bakers handed the opposition Socialist Party a made-to-order issue by jumping the price of bread. Last week, as the soap and furniture makers followed the bakers' lead, the Socialists talked ominously of spreading inflation and accused Erhard of "quietly leaving the consumer to his fate...
...hours, rose for a late breakfast (prunes, oatmeal, toast and jelly, Sanka) and a look at Washington reports radioed or relayed by courier seaplane. The President suggested extra guests for dinner, i.e., Canberra's officers picked two at a time by wardroom draw for never-to-be-forgotten bread-breaking at sea with their commander in chief...
What worries the Pentagon is that in the horsepower race the rest of the industry seems to be fighting a losing competitive battle. General Electric, which claims to have delivered more jet engines than any other manufacturer, lost its bread-and-butter J47 engine contract with the end of B-47 medium-bomber production. To replace it, G.E. has a new J79 engine (about 15,000-lb. thrust) for Convair's supersonic B58 bomber and Lockheed's F-104A Starfighter. Yet the four-jet B58 Hustler is far from quantity production, and the F104 program may be slowed...
...history with long speeches, their Protestant fervor with prayer. President Eisenhower sent a message ("a vigorous spirit expressed in the sound and good work of the Moravian Church"). So did Dr. Albert Schweitzer from the jungles of Africa. Communicants poured into churches (standing instead of kneeling to receive their bread and wine, chiefly because the Catholics do it the other way). Of all the words uttered to mark the anniversary, none were more Moravian than those spoken by 17th century Moravian Bishop John Amos Comenius...
Straight Life Insurance, the industry's traditional bread-and-butter policy, which provides a lump-sum payment to a policyholder's beneficiaries upon his death-and at a relatively low premium. Another feature is that policyholders can stop paying premiums whenever they choose, get the equity they have put into the policy in cash, or take a reduced paid-up policy. A young man of 23, for example, can buy a $10,000 straight-life policy at a premium cost of about $180 annually. His beneficiaries would get $10,000 when he dies; if he wants to stop...