Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workers Alliance of America, union of unemployed and relief workers, decided last spring to hold its fourth annual convention in Cleveland, where people who could not get relief were then fighting in the streets for food (TIME, May 16). Last week 500 Alliance delegates assembled in Cleveland's Public Auditorium. They did not look like darlings of Harry Hopkins or anybody else. Some were ebony Negroes from the South. Nearly all had an air of shabby insecurity. All showed fight...
...three days of ordinary rain. Highways and railroads were washed out. In the Connecticut Valley cities marshaled sandbag brigades. Hartford held its breath while the dike by the Colt Arms factory held through a flood stage 36.45 feet. In the Thames Valley, Norwich, Conn., isolated, was supplied with food and medicines by airplane...
...these men who came with dollars from Denver or Minneapolis the Red Cross yesterday offered a bargain. For ten dollars it will not give them a pair of imported trousers, but to another American citizen, destitute through no fault of his own, it will give food, shelter, security and rehabilitation. An Act of God has placed 50,000 people in need of this aid, and it will be given. Harvard will help...
...Food Shortage...
...remarked on the food shortage in Germany, which we had been quite aware of, having eaten nothing but potatoes and meat for weeks. Prague, by contrast seemed crammed with food. Everyone had just eaten, was in the process of eating, or was going to eat. Another Prahaian (the German word for Prague is Praha) pointed out that as long as his country had the Skoda munitions works and people to man the guns, they never let Germany come near the border...