Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Pittsburgh last week Commissioner Damon got a bouquet of flowers from a Jew who has given a dollar a day to the Army ever since World War I because it was kind to him when he was a doughboy. "You see," the Commissioner said happily, "you cast your bread on the waters and you never know how or when it will come back...
...odor of fresh-baked bread lured Dr. Edward Deming Andrews into a Shaker colony at Hancock, Mass. There & then (1920) he began collecting Shaker art. Last week, in two big rooms in the Berkshire Museum at Pittsfield, Mass, his collection, the most complete in the U. S., was put on view...
Sobering news to a victory-drunk nation was the announcement that after Aug. i the bread ration would be reduced...
...vast and variegated job of rearming the U. S. the part that U. S. industry must play is vast and variegated enough. It means building a strange, specialized, plane-ship-and-munitions economy inside and alongside a vast, sluggish bread-&-butter economy, and meshing them. Yet the first step needed for the industrial job was by last week clear: constructing new plant and equipment. But, after seven weeks of hard desk work and high talk in Washington, few new factories for war materials had taken shape...
...victory of France." Said a friend in Washington last week: "I'm afraid it will break old Bill's heart. The Germans will probably bow to him from the waist and have caviar shipped in especially, and he would love it if they put him on bread and water." At week's end Mr. Bullitt was reported to have left his hosts, traipsed off to Bordeaux...