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Indeed there were: some 320 towns in Byelorussia alone bore names like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.* There was a place called Snout, and another called Corn-on-the-Foot. In the Pinsk district, such villages as Breadless, Emaciation, The Hungry One and The Thin One reflected dishonor on the good offices (and great girth) of the inventor of Goulash Communism himself, Nikita Khrushchev...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, the only living ex-President of the U.S. sat down to a butterless, breadless, sugarless, cream-less, potatoless, meatless dinner. (He ate cold salmon, vegetables, fruit.) Then he rose before a microphone to talk about food. At President Truman's request, Herbert Hoover had travelled 50,000 miles through 38 countries. Few men except the starving themselves knew so much about food-and famine...
...have known breadless and meatless months, but though eighty years old I never lost courage...
...week, most of the city's 800 relief workers, who had all been discharged because there was no money for their pay checks, stayed on as volunteers. The city council raised a $50,000 stopgap appropriation which had been used up by last week's end. While breadless breadlines lengthened and the city council met to think up some sort of new emergency solution to tide the city over through the month or so until funds appear. Mayor Harold Hitz Burton made what was apparently meant to be a reassuring statement: "Although there are no funds available...
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