Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surface, the U.S. people's first reaction to the sudden end of price controls was violent. Headlines told of prices of meat, milk, butter and bread shooting up. Like fat in a fire, accounts of sky-high rent boosts sputtered noisily in the news. In the first day or two it seemed to many that the nation had caught panic at the notion of being on its economic own, and free of Government price controls...
...noon Frank Anderson called a halt. His shirt and overalls were mushy with sweat, dust and chaff. At the house plump, jolly Zula Anderson had everything on the table the minute the men finished at the back-porch sink-fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, tomatoes, beets, bread & butter, milk, iced...
...elder daughter Canada planned a tight family deal: Britain would buy an average of 145 million bushels of Canada's wheat annually (37% of this year's expected crop) for the next four years. The price would be $1.55 a bushel. This would ensure Britons cheap bread and Canadians a guaranteed market, although prairie farmers complained bitterly that they were losing millions of dollars. (U.S. farmers were getting $2.16 a bushel.) Nevertheless, Britain's Food Minister John Strachey flew out to Ottawa to sign on the dotted line...
...come some day. What added heat to her anger was the fact that she had only wanted to do what the free-trading U.S. is doing with Cuba-i.e., buying her sugar crop at a guaranteed price below the world price. And Britain, which was forced to ration bread last week for the first time in her history, was angry because she will have to pay more for her daily bread...
Russia's No. 1 Propagandist-journalist, slight, greying Ilya Ehrenburg, had spent two months in the U.S., encouraged to look where he liked. Last week, for the United Press, he wrote a 1,700-word bread & butter letter, full of praise for America's splendid highways and damnation for U.S. newspapers. Obviously, if this great country was not getting along with his great country, the fault was America's Excerpts...