Word: flour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tracked Down. In a divorce suit in San Jose, Calif., Sam Irwin claimed he suspected shenanigans between his wife and the hired man, soon got his proof: coming & going footprints in the flour he had cunningly sprinkled on the floor between their rooms...
...funneling off process was reflected in empty bakeries and idle flour mills. The U.S. had forsworn rationing. It could not undertake to fight world famine without giving up something. Bare shelves were often more persuasive than conscience...
...Three days after taking office, Strachey made a brilliant speech in the House of Commons. "Famine, like peace, is indivisible . . ." he said. "This nation will play no small part in saving both itself and the world." As even the Tory press applauded, Britons swallowed his warning of bread and flour rationing, avoided during...
...clotting of the blood) and increases the blood supply to the individual muscles of the heart, thus effecting muscle repair. Their research indicated that the tremendous increase in heart disease deaths might be due to overrefinement of foods-the polishing of rice, removal of vitamin values from flour, growing of vegetables in greenhouses (thus excluding ultraviolet light), picking of green oranges. All these deprive humans of their ordinary supply of vitamin...
With men, women & children the world over starving for lack of bread [TIME, April 29], it is shocking to discover that farmers here in Howell County, Mo., are feeding flour to hogs! . . . Farmers [are] forced to purchase large quantities of wheat flour in order to buy feed for their livestock. We have in our office signed statements from farmers and retailers alike testifying to the situation. So far, there has been no OPA action, although it is a distinct violation of laws forbidding dual purchases...