Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Louis and the mother of eight, was elected "Mrs. Unemployed American Mother." Her family food allowance: $58.85 a month. Rent allowance: $10. Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to sit next Mrs. Easley at a reliefer's dinner. The menu: 2 oz. beef stew, % carrot, 1 onion, % potato, % slice of bread, 1 pat of oleomargarine, 1 canned prune. Mrs. Roosevelt agreed that the dinner was not quite enough...
...large slept on, learning only at 8 o'clock that Der Tag had come, when Dr. Goebbels in suave radio tones announced that Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg had been taken "under protection" by the Reich. German laborers plodding to work in wooden-soled shoes, with their black bread and margarine wrapped in a newspaper, scarcely paused to listen at the public loudspeakers. The events of the past six years had endowed them with a stoic indifference which no new violence could shatter. Men over 50 had been drafted and even disabled veterans were called into service for behind...
...write 'bread and butter' letters...
Since Mr. Walsh was hired to look over the Dining Halls, orders have gone down to the waitresses to stop wastage of bread, butter, and vegetables. This waste was the worst feature of the Dining Halls, according to the Student Council Food Report. There are two ways in which the orders against waste may be interpreted: as a means to fool the efficiency expert, or as the result of a sincere desire to remedy obvious evils as soon as possible, expert or no expert. If the first is true, the College may expect the old troubles to return as soon...
When asked about this sudden change, a Leverett House waitress admitted that an order had come from higher up. "We were told to ask each student what vegetables he wants and also to save on butter and bread...