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...increased 50% in Spain in the past year. Wages have not gone up. Bread lines in Catalonia are longer than during the blockade of the Republic. In Valencia, famed for its arroz dishes, there is a scarcity of rice. Aristocrats dine at Madrid's Ritz on chick peas. Butter, eggs, meat, oil. coffee and sugar are rationed, when they...
...ever got a lesson in musical composition. Like Abraham Lincoln, on whose birthday he was born, he got his education the hard way, all by himself. In 1918, when he was mustered out of the Army, he drove a truck for a living, delivering 3,000 lb. of butter and 300 dozen eggs a day around Los Angeles...
...preliminary check on the amount of waste involved in dining hall food which is not eaten, the Committee held a check on February 21 to determine the amount of bread and butter thrown away after being returned to the kitchen. At lunch that day in Leverett House observers found that 62 rolls were thrown away, two leaves of bread, and 50 cakes of butter. The food thrown away was returned to the kitchen completely untouched; the butter was still in bowis with ice and water, and the bread was still on the bread plates...
...away. But in the other Houses the Committee found no waste, but ample indication that waste was general; obviously the order had come down from above to indulge in some window-dressing for the Committee's benefit. For example, the waitresses had to be told repeatedly not to throw butter away, but to save it, thus proving conclusively that when no one was there to check up, the butter was wasted. The waitresses took the economy drive as a big joke, and freely admitted that they ordinarily threw away left-over bread and butter and had never before been instructed...
...Committee then talked to Mr. Robertson, who denied that bread and butter were ever thrown away, and said that not more than one per cent of the food cooked was ever wasted...