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While some seem to have plenty of food and money, the rising unemployment leaves many without. One wealthy couple sets up a place where the poor can get a hot meal. EF Hutton ventures down into Hell’s Kitchen to check on the soup kitchen sponsored by him and his wife Marjorie Merriweather Post. Historical section covers Al Capone’s soup kitchen, and a news update about the starving Mahatma Gandhi in British Occupied India. Other people and subjects include: January 1931, Salvation Army, Post Cereal fortune, Birds Eye frozen foods, General Mills, tenor Rafaelo Diaz, food insecurity, and the Great Depression effect on grandparents. Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
January 21, 2022
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While some seem to have plenty of food and money, the rising unemployment leaves many without. One wealthy couple sets up a place where the poor can get a hot meal.
EF Hutton ventures down into Hell’s Kitchen to check on the soup kitchen sponsored by him and his wife Marjorie Merriweather Post. Historical section covers Al Capone’s soup kitchen, and a news update about the starving Mahatma Gandhi in British Occupied India.
Other people and subjects include: January 1931, Salvation Army, Post Cereal fortune, Birds Eye frozen foods, General Mills, tenor Rafaelo Diaz, food insecurity, and the Great Depression effect on grandparents.
Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
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