Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indianapolis last week Garbage Collector Noah Bowman reported one day's take: one unopened 24-lb. sack of flour, one whole cantaloupe, half a chicken, an unopened loaf of bread, an 8-lb. slab of bacon. Worst offenders: childless couples, who cut two pieces out of a pie and discard the rest. Worst periods: after holidays...
France's economic life. Now it could no longer conceal them. To conserve coal, electricity in Paris was cut off for two days a week. To save meat, butchers were allowed to open their shops only two days, over the weekend. Drastic gasoline cuts made taxis a rarity. Bread was harder to get than at any time since World War I. The reason for all this: beginning Oct. 15, France will have no dollars to buy the things which she has not been able to provide for herself. By that time, the last dollar of established credits, the last...
France consumes 7,000,000 tons of wheat each year, usually grows 6,700,000 tons of it herself. This year drought cut the French yield to 3,300,000 tons. Without dollars to buy wheat abroad, Frenchmen will have little bread, their basic food. The bread ration has already been cut to 200 grams a day (75 grams lower than the lowest ration during the German occupation). Probable November level: 150 grams (less than four average U.S. slices) daily...
Last week things got rougher. When Government price control officials caved in to the pressure of soaring prices of imported grain and took ceilings off flour, bread prices promptly tripled. Mexico City bakery workers walked out. Bands of 20 to 25 men roamed the streets, smashed bakery windows, dumped bread, painted hambreador on store fronts; 250 of the city's 850 small bakeries were damaged...
...calo under the office of District Governor Fernando Casas Alemán to protest the arrest of three union leaders, and told the Governor that "functionaries who ordered these arrests don't know the humble pot of beans." The men were released, the strikers went back to work. Bread prices stayed up, but bakers agreed to put 75% of their production in the small, 5 centavo loaf, only 25% in more expensive sizes...