Word: breads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Government Bonds in recent years have taken the place of commercial loans as the bread and butter of banks. Day before Hitler jumped Poland, U. S. Treasury 4¼s (1947-52) stood at the fantastic price of 119 20/32, Treasury 2¾s (1956-59) at 106, etc. Since the premiums commanded by these bonds have to be amortized out of interest the actual yield (to maturity) of these two issues...
...Poland's peasants. There are 20,000,000 of them, 5,000.000 of whom are continually unemployed. Few can read, some in Galicia do not know that the Emperor Franz Joseph is dead and that they are no longer Austrian subjects. To them salt is like gold dust, bread like caviar. But last week peasant boys were stolidly shuffling to mobilization centres, farmers were sending their only horses to bolster the country's cavalry-minded army...
...Blanco was the big news in Spain last week: white bread. The reappearance of white-flour bread was hailed as a final sign of convalescence. More important, its reappearance was a sign that Spain is determined to continue convalescing, and not relapse into another war-of any one's making...
...Fresh milk costs 25? per quart, bread usually 25? per loaf, gasoline 35? per gallon, imported timothy hay $75 per ton, local...
...shortage tales which have come out of the U. S. S. R., one which came last week was most calculated to wring the hearts of Old Russians. The Moscow bimonthly Bolshevik reported a shortage not of shoes, not of black bread or tractors or clothes, not of roofs to sleep under-but of samovars. There is only one shop in all Moscow, said the Bolshevik, which will make, resurface or solder samovars. So busy are that shop's tinkers that they can accept orders only for 150 on the 13th day of each month...