Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Aerocrete, a light concrete building material which rises like leavened bread, has passed the fire, load and water tests required of flooring materials in New York, it was announced last week. A Swedish discovery, aerocrete has been used in Europe for a decade to construct building parts which are not subjected to much weight (floor filling, roof blocks). Two years ago, Aerocrete Corp. of America introduced it into U. S., worked with Columbia University's Civil Engineers to improve the material, make it strong enough to be used as a structural flooring...
...Naples army corps alone sent 12,000 rations of bread, 16,000 tins of meat, 7.500 tents, 15,000 blankets into the stricken district. Anxious as Prime Minister Mussolini was to succor his people, he was still more anxious to preserve Italian dignity, pride. Politely but firmly he refused all offers of help from abroad...
...taught allegiance to the Red flag, which follows summer camps. Charles G. Wood, Commissioner of Conciliation in the Department of Labor, testified that at the Wing- dale, N. Y., camp customs include: 1) a slogan: "Wipe God from the skies;" 2) a table request: "God damn it, pass the bread." The Committee resolved to visit Wingdale and other Young Pioneer camps...
Both doctors repeated with insistence that "Russians like black bread," claimed that their interpreter, "a member of the old Russian aristocracy," so greatly preferred black bread to white that she invariably refused the latter. "She even carried small pieces of black bread in her handbag, for fear we should get to a small hotel where they would have only white bread...
Came the Franco-Prussian War, Sedan, the fall of the Empire. The Prussians encircled Paris. Fiery Leon Gambetta escaped in a balloon to direct the war from Tours. The beleaguered Parisians were left to eat rats and sawdust bread, shout the "Marseillaise" from the ramparts. Banker Dreyfus had an opportunity to purchase Critic Timbal's collection at a very attractive price. During the next 20 years, when defeated France was re-establishing herself, he had many similar opportunities...