Word: breads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italians rebutted as best they could last week against Sanctions. Dictator Mussolini, who some weeks ago persuaded fruitful Hungary, traditionally "Italy's bread-basket," not to join in Sanctions, last week signed a trade accord in Rome with the Hungarian Minister "to insure adequate food supplies...
...Spain's Murcia Province 6,000 citizens ate bread made from flour containing powdered lead, whereupon 6,000 stomachs churned, 12,000 legs grew numb. The flour distributor, one Jose Merono Olmos, was held in $35,000 bail, tentatively assessed $70,000 damages...
...present upturn as merely the beginning of the next boom. It saw no harm in getting ahead of the parade, as long as it knew that the parade had started. The spirit of recovery remains considerably superior to its statistics, but the Market was never one to live on bread alone...
Marx's domestic life was constantly troubled. "The classic theoretician of money," says Biographer Mehring, "could never quite make his own tally." Once the family lived for ten days on bread and potatoes. Once Marx could not leave the house because he had no clothes. Once, after a publisher had agreed to take one of his books, he could not raise money enough to mail the manuscript. In five years three of the children died, Marx suffered from piles, boils, indigestion, liver trouble. His wife broke down after the death of her favorite son. In this, as in most...
...such stuff Let Freedom Ring is made. This time the workers are Carolina mountain folk, well observed by Novelist Grace Lumpkin in her To Make My Bread and well transplanted behind the footlights by Adapter Bein. The mountain folk, frozen out of their hill homes one cold winter, go down to town to work in the cotton mills. There life as "lint heads" is far from the fine things they expected. Tuberculosis gets the men while those women whom pellagra spares are tempted to eke out a living from the wages...