Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane, undamaged by landing, had floated buoyantly. On the first morning the men exchanged Navy ribaldries while they waited for a rescue which was sure to take place within a few hours. After four days their emergency rations of beans, hardtack, dried bread, chocolate, were exhausted. A merchant steamer hove into sight, insubstantial as a silhouette cut out of blue paper. The PN9 sent up furious signals. The ship dwindled to a smoke, vanished. The airplane's radio operator picked up a message which stated that at a conference of pilots on the U. S. S. Langley it was unanimously...
...Manly has now taken alarm at the mergers of bread companies, and declares that a "bread trust" is now forming whose power is a national menace. Mr. Manly further states that profits in milling and breadmaking, being out of proportion to the increased price of wheat, are now "unconscionable", and are due to combinations in violation of the Sherman...
This matter of a "bread trust" had been previously raised before the Federal Trade Commission, under an investigating resolution sponsored by the late Senator La Follette and authorized by the Senate. The Trade Commission decided not to proceed with the investigation. Now Mr. Manly demands that this decision be reversed...
...matter of fact the hue and cry over a "bread trust" has fallen rather flat, despite Mr. Manly's | vigorous assertions. A huge number of U. S. housewives still bake their own bread, and this will always be a ready alternative to buying of an extortionate "bread trust...
Meantime schoolchildren continued their vacation rompings. Parents pruned their bread and butter tree. Ordinary days went by, adding into everyday weeks, which became commonplace months in a prosaic year...