Word: flour
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Besides this actual gain, there is the moral one which comes from enforcing a patriotic principle. Just as any one individual household saves little white flour by using graham twice a week, so we conserve only a relatively small amount of fuel by dimming out lights. But, as the household, because it has the spirit, helps materially to prevent waste, so the student body can check needless consumption. We shall back up an actual physical profit by the knowledge of having done as much as possible to preserve the vital supplies of the nation...
Blackberry pie requires for its making blackberries, sugar, a little flour; and pie crust with shortening in it as well as flour...
Custard pie takes eggs, milk and sugar as well as pie crust, containing flour and shortening...
...above indicated, in part: (3) The speculator is a risk-bearer. Millers and grain buyers in the country "hedge" by short sales on the exchanges when they buy to grind or to ship. If the wheat the miller buys to grind goes down, and with it the price of flour, his loss is offset by a profit on the short sale, and vice versa. When "futures" at Winnipeg were forbidden recently, grain ceased to come in from the farms, as buyers were afraid to buy from the farmers unless they could "hedge" by a "future" at Winnipeg. The prohibition...
...trade together. For patriotic reasons, as well as to protect the trade from disaster, they would respond. If a committee of grain experts, under Government auspices, should use their wonderful machinery for collecting information, they could probably in a short time find out the existing stocks of grain and flour and the probable future demands for various purposes at various prices. With these data, they could perhaps estimate the prices needed to bring supply and demand together. Such estimated prices might tell the truth better than the present prices in a demoralized market are doing. Such a report might clear...