Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will continue to use "every tool at its command," the Secretary said. As a result of its efforts, the Federal Government now owns or has made loans on $5 billion worth of farm products; e.g., it is holding 425 million bushels of wheat-enough to make five loaves of bread for every human being in the world-and has made loans on 764 million bushels of corn. The Government's storage bill for all farm commodities is $465,000 a day. Asked Benson: "What are we going to do about...
Joel Cohen supplied 11 points to the Yardling track team as they routed the Tafts freshmen, 61 to 44, at the Tufts Cage yesterday. Cohen wen the 45-yard high hurdles and the bread jump and tied for second in the high jump...
...white collar man, a prospective management official, seems a different bread from the technically trained men who produce the industry's bread and butter, airplanes. Little advice can be given about job opportunities, starting salaries, or benefits for the desk man compared to the laborer or the technician. The lack of recruiting at the college level is starting because these are the men who will eventually run the concern. There is often no definite way in which the liberal arts graduate gets into the concern. He may know a family friend who will give him his initial chance...
Christian Mission. Worst hit of all were the drab industrial towns of northern Spain, where factory shutdowns meant less daily bread for the workers. In Bilbao (pop. 230,000), factories and steel plants were rationed to 15 hours of power a week; unemployment soared, wages fell below subsistence. To alleviate the misery and to encourage the workers, Bilbao's energetic young Bishop Casimiro Morcillo González set up a mission whose motto was "Towards a Better Life." All week long, 300 priests used 2,000 loudspeakers to urge "Christian solidarity" for the workers, "social justice" from the employers...
...guardian rather than daring reformer, diplomat and preacher rather than crusader. He has (in his own phrase) "sown among ruins." He has shown his time that Stalin's famous question was not so much cynical as naive, and that anyone who perceives power only in divisions, or in bread and machines, sees the world about as realistically as a pre-Copernican astronomer...