Word: flour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native Houston. The bankers roared. "You notice I didn't say $20 gold piece," the burly Texan added. "I don't know what is ahead either but I know what is behind us. I know there's plenty of meat in the smokehouse and flour in the barrel and, whatever it is, we'll lick it somehow...
...food in the intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk' of the human diet is not inert material going through the intestinal tract unchanged, but rather...
...been for years. Crops for this and the two previous years have averaged nearly 100,000,000 bu. below domestic consumption of about 650,000,000 bu. annually. This year, moreover, the 595.000,000 bu. harvested is light in weight, requiring the use of more bushels per barrel of flour. The surpluses piled up prior to 1933 are nearly exhausted, and before the next harvest U. S. millers must import perhaps 50,000,000 bu. of high-grade Canadian grain over a 42¢-per-bu. tariff...
When striking truckmen rioted in Minneapolis last year two special policemen were killed (TIME, June 1934). One night last week another howling, ugly-tempered mob milled around Minneapolis' Flour City Ornamental Iron Co., which strikers from six other local iron plants had been trying to shut down since early July. Inside the plant, where they had worked, eaten, slept for three days, cowered 18 non-union workers...
Next day Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson moved the besieged non-unionists out under police guard, shut down the Flour City plant under threat of martial...