Word: breaded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Charles offers other reasons. For one thing the nature of the business was germane to boom times, not bad times. Delivering a jar of caviar to goth Street was all very well; not so a loaf of bread, a pound of coffee. And chains-with low overhead, mass purchases and many good standard brands-cut in plenty...
...houses connected by the main tunnel system is prepared in an elaborate kitchen, situated under Kirkland and Eliot Houses, with separate units used for the various phases of the Harvard cuisine. The moats and vegetables are prepared in separate kitchens and a complete bakery supplies the entire university with bread and desserts...
...past year Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. has run cartoon advertising headlined "It's Only a Penny," showing that one cent's worth of electricity will toast 26 slices of bread. Last week the $1,300,000,000 utility issued its third-quarter earnings report. Its net income of $3,506,027 was enough to toast 156 slices of bread for the holder of each share of its common stock-precisely 26 slices more than for the same period last year...
...more than a year to each gnawing stomach of 900,000 Madrileños have been rationed only a few daily scraps of bread, a handful of rice, an occasional potato or orange, rancid olive oil, no sugar, mudlike coffee, little meat. Trees have been cut down, furniture broken up, destroyed houses and buildings whittled away to provide fuel for an undernourished population that feels now more than ever the wintry blasts that sweep down from the Guadarrama Mountains...
Madrilenos, now facing their third winter of siege, rationed only 100 grams (about three and one-half ordinary hard rolls) of bread daily, feared that their enemies' gifts contained poison. Leftist chemists said they contained only "moral poison," called the bread bombings a "grotesque" gesture by aviators otherwise engaged in "assassinating women and children in defenseless towns." Grotesque or not, the bread shower was a pointed reminder that in Rightist Spain only a few nonessential items (tobacco, coffee, sugar) are scarce, while in overpopulated Leftist Spain the problem of foodstuffs is nearly as acute as that which faced Germany...