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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prominently displayed in Chicago last week stood three 40-ft.-long containers loaded with food and medicine bound for Gdansk, Krakow and Warsaw. The desperately needed cartons of flour, baby food, pasta, antibiotics, surgical gloves and hospital linens are manifestations of one of the most profound changes brought about by Poland's dramatic opening to the West. A Polish government is at last receiving the enthusiastic support and recognition of "Polonia," as Poles who have left their homeland refer to the colonies they have established in other countries. In the week that brought Lech Walesa to the Windy City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Polonia with Love | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...crowd held back while a group of 40 hungry women and children rushed into the Boerio and grabbed as much milk, flour and sugar as they could carry. As they fled, the ransacking began in earnest. Young, strapping men armed with crowbars knocked spaghetti, oranges and hunks of meat onto the floor as they rushed to scoop up groceries. Others carted off boxes of laundry detergent, frozen foods and toilet paper into their Peugots, Volvos and even waiting taxis. Within 20 minutes they had destroyed the bakery at the rear of the store, smashed out the windows and broken open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall and Fall of Argentina | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...increases earlier in the production process were more moderate. Prices at the intermediate level rose 0.5 percent while the cost of crude goods dipped 0.1 percent after two months of increases above 3 percent. A loaf of bread is an example of an item at the finished goods level, flour at the intermediate level and wheat at the crude level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wholesale Prices Continue Upward Climb | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

...early as 3 a.m., young children were out in the freezing night, waiting outside bakeries that would not open for several hours and then might have only a few undersize loaves for sale. In Khair Khana, a residential area, a thousand women and children pushed and shoved for flour and fuel provided by the Soviets. Afghan soldiers thrashed the crowd with blankets and sticks to keep order. Last week an emergency Soviet airlift, along with the arrival of large convoys on the Salang, greatly alleviated the food shortages, but despite Moscow's promises, it was unclear how long that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Waiting for the End | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...Francisco bakery. In addition to running four retail shops, it services 550 restaurants. Its best sellers: chocolate sour- cream fudge cake, apple pie and carrot cake. In five years the business's butter consumption has jumped from 3,000 lbs. a week to 7,000, while its weekly flour order has doubled from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Let Them Eat Cake! | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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