Word: breads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grain shortages have increased the price of flour; consequently, bread prices have risen 7.5% since January. The steep price of feed grains for livestock has also contributed to an appreciable increase in meat prices. At the same time, ranchers have stepped up their slaughter of dairy cattle-to reduce feed expenses, take advantage of high meat prices-with the result that milk prices are up 7.9% this year...
...houses which were denied the daily 30-cent subsidy granted earlier this year will be sent deliveries of canned juice, instant coffee, bread, margarine, and jam. "How they use it is their own affair," Mrs. Bunting said...
Scientific Skepticism. At the subterranean level, the book deals with moral issues that seem remote from spydom's amoral domain. As a schoolboy, Roper applied scientific skepticism to religion. "Does Christ reside in the molecules themselves," he asked, pondering the Eucharist, "or only in the molecules organized into bread?" Later, war service destroyed both his worlds, religion and science: "What's the point of fighting if we don't believe that one way of life is better than another...
When the Commissioner of Internal Revenue has lunch with the ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue, it's a good possibility that Topic A will be taxes. So it was last week in a private Washington, D.C., dining room where ex-Commissioner Mortimer Caplin broke bread with Sheldon Cohen, the man who succeeded him last year. One issue Caplin wanted to talk about was lack of taxes, specifically from the tax-exempt organizations that profit so neatly from their publications...
...early Romans lived for bread and circuses, the contemporary ones make circuses to earn their bread. Now adays, they call them costume pageants, and the tourists gobble them up, even though the shows are more hokey than historical. When the tourist season in Italy quieted down this year, it seemed to Impresario Gino Land! that it would be a shame to waste all those horses, women and gladiators; so he packed them all up and sent them to the U.S. for a multicity tour. Last week Landi's Festa Italiana opened at Madison Square Garden, and much to everybody...