Word: flour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slum Clearance conference was indeed TIME-worthy. To it went Editor Harold Sinley Buttenheim of American City Magazine; President Appleton P. Clark Jr. of Washington Sanitary Housing Corp.; New York's Ralph Borsodi, economist who grinds his own flour at home and whose plan for making the unemployed produce their own necessities was adopted last autumn in Dayton; Howard Whipple Green, Cleveland statistician, author of exhaustive studies of Cleveland's population and buying power; Eugene Henry Klaber of American Institute of Architects; Cincinnati's able Lawyer Alfred Bettman, vice president of the National Conference on City Planning...
...Government restriction measures) touched $1.08½ for December delivery-jumped 23? a bushel in a week. Talk of a corner in rye by Dr. Edward A. Crawford (TIME, June 19) was resumed. Also there was talk of a rye shortage due to 1) expected use of more rye flour in bread as wheat prices rise; 2) expected large demand for rye by distillers. In one day 7,000,000 bu. of rye were sold. (Total U. S. rye crop is normally about 40,000,000 bushels.) Report was that, attracted by high prices, 600,000 bu. of Canadian...
Under the new law, which the Senate was expected to pass this week, the State will collect from millers a progressively increasing tax on flour, proceeds from which will be used in efforts to raise wheat prices from $1.14 per bushel last week in France to $1.54 by July 15 and within the next year to $1.73. (Last week's price in Chicago...
Already French law compels millers to use 100% French wheat in making flour, and the farmer is further protected by French tariffs and quotas raised against the world's great wheat growing states (see p. 17). With bread prices bound to rise, French papers bristled last week with indignant plaints headed THE DEAR LIFE (La Vie Chére). On the Riviera rich Bruce Bundy of Los Angeles announced a plan to form an island colony "as a refuge from high French prices and the depreciated dollar." Socialite colonists would purchase all their necessary luxuries on a co-operative...
...cost of wheat has very little to do with the cost of making bread." We say, True. Because you can't make bread in New York City out of wheat in Montana. If you will recall what has to be done with the wheat before it becomes flour in New York City; then recall what has to be added to and done with the resultant product before it becomes bread upon the table; you will be reminded of a few items of cost. You say in France a pound-loaf of bread sold...