Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany raised enough food to feed her population of 40,997,000. But the years between the Franco-Prussian and the World Wars saw a three-fold growth of the city population, while the rural population stood still. After 1900 the trend frightened the military clique into demanding increased tariff protection for the farmer, and just before the famous shot was fired at Sarajevo the Kaiser's advisers were only reasonably certain that the food situation could withstand...
...rolls to bring them down to 2,600.000. He knew this could not be done without local disturbances. Sure enough, in Flint. Mich., 750 families cut off relief established a "death watch'' camp in a public park, threatened to march on Flint's food warehouses...
Forty-six hours later Wilson Burgess signed off. In that time he had sent more than 900 messages, calls for rescue boats, Red Cross communications for medicine, food, doctors and nurses; orders from local undertakers for coffins; advice to boil water; warnings to looters; instructions to rescue pilots; news details of the hurricane that killed 136 people in the Westerly and nearby beach areas before it swept on up through New England...
Contemporary German art on exhibit in the Germanic Museum comprises one of the most startling and diverse collections that has been presented in Cambridge this year. The group as a whole will provide ample food for thought in a surprisingly forceful manner for anyone interested in deciphering the hieroglyphics of contemporary European trends in art. Obvious lack of feeling is the essential characteristic of most of the pictures. But in place of deep and reverberating content, harshness and vigor often bordering on sensationalism is found. Head of a Woman, by Nolde, a blatant example of art at its lowest point...
...forgotten drawing by P'ainter-Revolutionist David, who voted for his king's death. It showed hunted Louis and his family crammed into the little cage in the Assembly, Louis wolfing a chicken behind the bars while the shocked rabble point. Mortified Marie Antoinette ate no food that day. When the Bourbons were restored, David, then a successful society artist, hastily rubbed out the chicken...