Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troubled little baker in Glenns Ferry, Idaho (pop. 1,414), last week was E. W. Nestak. He had been charging his fellow townsmen 9¢ a loaf for fine unsliced white bread when an order came from the NRA Bakery Code Administrator to boost his price to 10¢. Honest Baker Nestak thought it best to obey but he also wrote to his senior U. S. Senator to ask if the order was legal and binding...
...property, paid for it in worthless bonds. His laws were few but so sternly administered that crime became practically unknown. Said he: "It is my belief that England's freedom from crime today is largely due to that wise period when you hanged a man for stealing a loaf of bread." He made all farms taxfree, prohibited all forms of advertising. If anyone was found wearing gold braid he was made Vice Admiral of the non-existent navy, given no salary but forced to wear a uniform so excessively expensive that its cost ruined...
...snatcher caught. From Chicago officials had received a special delivery airmail letter directing them to a spot g-2 mi. from Tucson. They found June Robles lying in a shallow hole, chained by her ankles, covered with tin, burlap and cactus. Beside her lay a jug of water, a loaf of fairly fresh bread and some wilted oranges and vegetables. She was thin, dirty, sunburned, weak but otherwise sound. Her first words: "I want my mama...
...brunt of the storm in its fullest fury. Power lines went down, and with them out went oil-burning furnaces. Schools shut up for a week. A ball to be given Governor Cross by the Governor's Foot Guard was called off. Danbury bakers began charging 25? a loaf for bread. There was no milk in New Haven for two days. A Wilton mother bore her baby in front of an open fireplace and by candle-light after a doctor had dug through a 18-ft. drift to her door. Six funerals were postponed in Bridgeport, where banks...
...heavy industries. It cannot produce much that is valuable between now and Feb. 15. It will certainly lead the localities more and more to dump their entire relief problem on the central Government. It will certainly discourage the private building industry. ... It will certainly cause men who are now loafing on made work with nothing to work with or at, to loaf more hours. ... It will certainly afford an alibi for the incompetents in the Public Works Administration [who] can now take a long winter...