Breadlines: invented in the US.

Famine: always manmade, always political.

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Sources:

Reuters 

NY Times 1,2,3,4 

Family Business magazine 

New Yorker 

Chewing the Fat 

LA Times 

Chicago Tribune 

The Counter 

PBS 

Bloomberg 

History.com 

Oxfam 

The Bread Line: An American Icon of Hard Times 

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression 

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