Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bread will cost 1? more a loaf, According to Mr. Wallace." And he said (but you didn't), "the Bakers have promised not to pyramid...
...some places they [the bakers] have already added 1? a loaf." We say, True. Because bread wars have resulted from cut-throat competition. These President Roosevelt said are not in the public interest...
...been abandoned, an all-time record. Kansas, which harvested 240,000,000 bu. in 1931, is expected to produce only 58,000,000 bu. this year. Whether or not the farmer profits much from dearer grain and smaller crops the consumer will pay: bread will cost 1?more a loaf...
...According to Mr. Wallace. It remains to be .seen whether the bakers will not add several cents (in some places they have already added 1c a loaf). Actually the cost of wheat has very little to do with the cost of making bread except as a pretext for raising prices. In France where wheat until recently was artificially maintained at a price of about $1.70 a bushel, a pound-loaf of bread sold...
Secretary of the Treasury Mills will loaf for several months, joining Citizen Hoover in California, but probably refusing to fish. Under his father's will which gave him a $12,000,000 fortune, Mr. Mills must spend two weeks each year in that State. Last year he served his time there electioneering unsuccessfully to hold his job in the Hoover Cabinet...