Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet commander, listening to a Budapest workers' committee presenting its demands: "We approve of the right to strike, but we have many ways of bringing it to an end." Soviet field police seized the bank accounts of struck firms, arrested leading Hungarian journalists, imposed tight electric-power and food controls. Strikers had their own methods of enforcing the strike: they fired shots in front of buses that resumed running, and with hand grenades drove back workers who appeared at one factory...
Workers' councils, mindful of shortening supplies of food and the lack of heat, met with Soviet commanders. A return to work, under certain conditions, might have been arranged but for the news which flashed through Budapest one day last week: the Russians were deporting Hungarians. Soviet police had been seen going from house to house arresting young rebels. Now the grapevine reported that at least 180 boxcar loads of Hungarians had been deported in a few days. Notes dropped by young deportees along the railroad tracks had been picked up. One of these, copied and circulated all over Budapest...
...basement or community center across the U.S. last week presented a scene more suggestive of the Depression than of the most prosperous year in U.S. history. Lines of citizens edged slowly up to makeshift counters, walked out with armloads of milk, butter, flour, or more than a dozen other food stuffs-all for free. The giveaway grocer: the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
...agricultural surpluses have recently been dropping at a surprising rate. While the school-lunch program got more than $100 million last fiscal year, the fastest-growing part of the domestic disposal program is the handout program to welfare and needy families: last fiscal year $90 million worth of food was given to 3,100,000 people in 36 states. More and more states are hopping on the bandwagon; only last month New York signed up to receive its share of the free groceries...
...present program bears little relation to the nation's economic state. The program got its big boost in 1954, when Kentucky's Democratic Senator Earle C. Clements and Virginia's Democratic Representative W. Pat Jennings opened the floodgates with a bill providing that surplus food be made available in coal-mining areas with high unemployment. Since then the amount of free food has jumped tenfold, a total large enough to compete with grocers in many towns, bountiful enough to favor many who could hardly qualify as needy...