Word: breads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winter. The strike has already cost more than $20 million in workers' wages. Many families are subsisting on strike benefits of from $10 to $30 a week or on welfare payments from the states or from the Mormon Church. Menus in the workers' homes have turned to bread and potatoes, stretched out with deer shot during the October hunting season. Businessmen who depend on miners are hurting too. G. R. Harmon, a grocer in the mining town of Granger, Utah, estimates that his business is off 62%. "People aren't buying anything that isn't basic...
...long while that an issue had provoked them into taking a stand vis-a-vis the administration. They have long been reluctant to let themselves be quoted in the Crimson, knowing that they would get a phone call from Fay House the next day. "It's a matter of bread and butter," Carl J. Estabrook, senior resident from Avon House, explains. "Nobody has ever been fired for expressing dissent from administration policies, but many feel very uneasy...
Wald concluded a 35-minute lecture and then announced that he and his family would leave for Stockholm Tuesday evening to accept his Nobel Prize in medicine. He then asked for "six beautiful girls" to help distribute wine and fresh bread "baked by two wonderful Greek ladies" to celebrate the occasion...
Sometimes the difference between riot and order in the slums may be not a question of billions spent on social welfare but a matter of a few cents-like 10? more for a dozen eggs, 20? more for a pound of hamburger or 2? more for a loaf of bread. For, cruelly enough, as hearings by a House subcommittee investigating consumer problems in New York City and St. Louis indicated last week, the poor are often charged more for groceries-and often given worse goods and services-than relatively affluent shoppers in suburbs and middle-class city neighborhoods...
...seem to be the very embodiment of the mass, the death of individualism in its most obvious and dramatic form," he explains. "Here are millions of men and women crowded together, lacking the space which gave to rural living a natural privacy and independence, dependent for their sustenance upon bread and circuses...