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...Disinflation note: In Denver, a loaf of bread cost...
...Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan checked into the price of bread, which has risen slightly in the last year, while the price of wheat has dropped almost one-third. The reason, said Brannan, was the thick slice taken by bakers and retailers; they keep 9.7? of a 14.5? loaf, as against the farmer's 3?. The profit on bread of eight representative food chains, said Brannan, was 18.2% (before...
...efforts at writing fiction gave him years of discouragement. When his publishers suppressed the first printing of Sister Carrie as "immoral" in 1900 he began a period of despair, ending in such poverty that he rented a $1.25-a-week room, lived on a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread a day. "A strange half-wakefulness soon came over him, during which he wandered about confused and uncertain as to what he actually was. He sometimes regarded himself as two persons ... At night, frequently, he imagined there was an intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last...
...other Lancastrians who have the misfortune to be blonde (an unlucky omen for anyone who has to first-foot for a household). This means that each time she arrives at a home bearing her good omens there will be a glass of wine and a slice of bun loaf awaiting...
Counterarguments that half a loaf was better than none only made Tobey hotter. "I accept this challenge," he cried, "and I'll see them in-you know where . . . Damn the legislative torpedoes. Let's go ahead and give the country what the American people want...