Word: dudman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keeping It Out. Last week, in a series of articles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Correspondent Richard Dudman added a few more details: "Middlemen sold some of the food to the starving at exorbitant prices. A wealthy landowner succeeded in keeping relief food out of [a nearby] valley so he could continue selling his own wheat at three times the normal price. Mills at Cuzco and Arequipa charged the drought-relief program 27? to 32? per 100 Ibs. for grinding grain when their normal fee was only 6?. Analysis of the flour showed it contained large amounts of dirt...