Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famine conditions in the United States are much worse than has been generally admitted, it appeared today, when through the rigid news censorship established by the Washington government leaked word that ferocious wild animals, driven by hunger, have deserted the forests and invaded towns looking for food...
...number of bears have been driven by hunger into the frontier community of Brooklyn, and one even invaded a house, the dispatches reveal. Packs of foxes run loose in the streets of New York...
...Widespread depression has tended to lessen the contrast between rich and poor" is the comforting assertion of the hunger stricken author of the editorial. Doubtless he has had the insufferable experience of being deprived of his caviar for breakfast or perhaps this year can have as his extra car only a Buick instead of a Packard...
...pangs of hunger but a will to have nice things prompted 10,000 New Zealanders to stage a demonstration which became a series of bloody riots in Auckland last week. Time after time the mob swept down Queen Street, smashing the windows of smart shops right & left, seized $350,000 worth of nice things...
...Squelched children are the cause of most psychological maladjustments. Ninety-eight per cent of American mothers so thoroughly suppress their children before the age of six that they are unfit for the strife that is a rule of the world. Their first instinct, that of hunger, is denied when they are punished for eating a cookie between meals; then their acquisition instinct is curbed when they are unable to understand that a diamond bracelet is more valuable than a rocking horse. When the sex instinct makes its appearance, it is unhealthily denied by the parent's explaining as my parents...