NOTHING TO BUY
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Mbscow kbusEWivE^: riot WHEN tole) food PRiCES RISE ONLY BLACE BREAD AND TEA
-By ' Telegrap h — Copyright) .
Rec. Mar. 30, 11 p;m. ... LONDON, Wednesday. The D'aily- Expre'ss -Moscow cosjreipondenjt- states that 100 housewives -attending- the hehdquartets ■ of- the Buttei* Trust, following an anhoilnceiritent of a 'butter sale, rioted wlhen itold that the price had been doubled, attacked the salesman, smashed windows and wrecked the store. Other women, who stood in a queue for twelve hours for sugarj started a riot when told that the supplxes were exhausted. There has been literally nothing to buy in most of the Moscow stores recently, and the staple diet of thousands" of people is black bread and tea.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 186, 31 March 1932, Page 5
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