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...other families in the Black Belt make much more than Mr. Miller (about $12 a week), but not many families have 23 people to support. Miller himself didn't use to be in such bad condition--it wasn't until 1963 that he started losing children from cold and hunger. Before 1963, the family planted 25 acres of cotton and had enough money to have regular meals and to clothe the children for school...
Surplus Commodities is a simple program based on a simple concept. The Department of Agriculture, realizing that the problems of farm surplus and rural hunger can theoretically be solved in one great swoop, gives out its extra food to families who don't have enough...
...HUNGER. This Swedish tale of a writer on the skids in a big city is given depth and resonance by the performances of Per Oscarsson and Gunnel Lindblom...
Lugging their cord-bound cardboard suitcases, the Portuguese workmen trudge across fields toward the unknown. They make up little knots of young and old, converging to form a stream of humanity, silent with uncertainty. The trip turns out to be a nightmare of danger and betrayal, hunger and exploitation. When Antonio reaches Paris at last, Carlos is nowhere to be found. Fellow Portuguese are friendly, but there are no jobs in construction work, let alone carpentry. A pretty nurse he meets tries to be helpful, but her world is too different from that of a poor, illegal immigrant with...
...Russian troops brought very little food with them, and Czechoslovaks were in no mood to ease their hunger pangs. Grocers and restaurant operators consistently refused to sell or give them anything, and farmers hid their stock. At one point, the underground radio gleefully announced that the average Russian tank crew's daily ration consisted of "six potatoes and some fat." It is small wonder that, after sitting down to that kind of mess, one trio of noncoms decided to raid a grove of apple trees near downtown Prague. Unfortunately for their appetites, the trees happened to be growing behind...