Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced by the Theatre Guild) tells how a spacious liar and accomplished charlatan rejuvenates an old folks' home. A 47-year-old hobo, Oliver Erwenter (José Ferrer) poses as a superbly virile codger of 77 and passes out to the men folk a magical aphrodisiac (actually, small bread pellets). He tells lordly yarns of foreign travel and female conquest; makes flamboyant love to a young lady employed at the home; and with a bit of help, swipes the equipment and supplies for a rousing charity bazaar. Though the truth about him gradually leaks out and he himself...
Bill Conway and quarterback Tex Furse, the Eli backers up, played tight, often drifting in almost to the line of scrimmage, and with straight-ahead man Shafer out of the game, the Elis were able to stop anything through the middle. Valpey solved the problem with two bread-and-butter plays that have been gaining ground all fall--the wing-back off-tackle slant to one flank and the tailback sweep and or cutback to the other. Moffle, the wingback, clicked off 149 yards and tailback Roche added an other 130, including the two payoff long-gainers in the final...
...flour a compound called nitrogen trichloride. It bleaches wheat flour and saves months in the aging process (hence the trade name: Agene). It is now used in 80% of U.S. white flour. Sir Edward Mellanby of Britain's Medical Research Council fed a concentrated diet of highly Agenized bread to dogs he was using in an experiment on nutrition, published the frightening results in the British Medical Journal two years ago. The flour had caused "running fits"; most of the dogs that did not recover in 30 minutes died...
Last week the Food & Drug Administration decided to take action.* It handed down a tentative order banning Agene as a bleaching agent for flour. If no exceptions are filed within ten days (so overwhelming is the evidence that none is expected), the order will become final. The bread industry will have until August 1949 to convert...
...Apparently by coincidence, the Russian news paper Meditsinsky Rabotnic (Medical Worker) chose last week to attack U.S. bread, praise Soviet bread. It bad-guessed that the U.S. Government would not forbid treating flour with such harmful chemicals as Agene because "such a way out is unsuited to the trust-owners - real bosses...