Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event of war a closed Mediterranean would leave Italy seriously crippled for food and raw materials, annually stores part of the wheat crop as a war measure, sells a sizable portion abroad for needed foreign exchange. Thus last year, while the nation on paper produced enough for home use, Italy in fact suffered a wheat shortage. Bakers, unable to purchase sufficient wheat flour, eked out their dough with substitutes like corn flour, bean flour, ground lentils or ground ceci, yellow, bean-like pellets. The Government legalized this adulteration up to 20% but bakers took advantage of the practice, began turning...
Although the Government nine months ago decreed a 10% to 20% raise in wages, food prices have skyrocketed out of proportion. The ''Battle of the Grain," while it substantially upped production, has benefited the large landowners who could make use of Government cultivation aids. These landowners annually sell their surplus stocks to the Government at a high price but the average peasant produces only enough for his own needs, has nothing left to sell. Despite frequent cash doles to the peasants, their standard of living has declined so that, especially in the areas south of Naples, some...
...textile cities seemed to him "not far from being industrial ghost cities." In Philadelphia, he found more slums and "the universal fear" that industry would move away. In the shadow of Bethlehem's steel mills he saw "filth and depravity" and the same methods that southern manufacturers use to resist unionization. In Washington, he found statistics to show that "low wages, long hours and primitive working conditions can be found anywhere...
Since country weeklies are distinctive for their local flavor, great chains and publishing titans in this field are rare. However, their widening interests have meant greater dependence on centralized services. For editorial matter outside of local topics, some of them use the Western Newspaper Union, world's largest and oldest publishing syndicate. With 34 branch plants in principal U. S. cities, W. N. U. sells type, printing machinery, paper and 400 features to 10,732 daily and weekly newspapers. For national advertising, some 5,000 country papers are represented by the American Press Association, which is no association...
...took him aside and showed him a few angles. Then he went up fast. He acquired a few attendants: Perry and Cork and a sinister character from Scranton named Max. He talked to all the concessionaires in the city and. because of his friendly way, they were glad to use the brand of pop he pushed. He talked to the barbers. He put short-weight scales in retail stores. He collected accident insurance from cleaners, dyers, shoeshine parlors. Everybody paid cheerfully and he split the money as he liked. He had good friends in the police force and at City...