Word: floured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to the producers, beginning: "Being endowed with normal mental faculties . . ." They paid his way to New York, quickly appraised him as a genuinely knowledgeable candidate whose "warmth" and "sparkle" made him an acceptable contestant. In no time he had mounted the program's cash "plateaus" by identifying flour in five breads for $16,000, five desserts for $32,000 (taxcut to $20,090), found himself with the option of going all the way. Getting ready for his final appearance last week, he took his uniform to be cleaned. Pleaded the tailor: "Let me take it to my synagogue...
...House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to provide bread for needy Americans in disaster or high-unemployment areas. The Agriculture Department would be authorized to process surplus wheat into flour and surplus corn into meal for distribution to the states through the Health, Education and Welfare Department...
...While bread can be made at home with weak-gluten wheat flour, the big mechanized bakers need the strength, elasticity and gas-retaining qualities of strong-gluten wheat flour for their bread, though they can use weak-gluten wheat for cakes and pastries...
...others, plus $4,000 worth of fixtures, glass and plumbing, raised a building that might have cost $75,000 or more in the U.S. Lima sent teachers, and Cruz's son went to classes; now, at 15, the boy runs a store of his own, selling soap, candles, flour and cigarettes. Other suggestions, planted with the mayorales, brought about a reforestation program, a new water system, training in the trades...
...When a blow like this hits," said a county agent in southeast Colorado, "the whole sky turns brown like the smoke from a great prairie fire. Everything is horizontal, and the dust is everywhere like scorched flour. The cattle are bunched with their tails to the winds. Sometimes it gets so bad that mud balls form on the animals' noses and eyes, and birds and animals are choked to death. I've seen hawks downed by the dusters. The lights go on at noon, and the wind whips out grain and grass and fences, and the tumbleweeds...