Word: floured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chemical firms from which it gets its pigment. Also, planners can decide what changes in the tax structure might increase employment in the shipping industry or promote the construction of boxcars. Explains Leontief in his high-pitched, heavily accented English: "When you make bread, you need eggs, flour and milk. And if you want more bread, first you must get more eggs. There are similar cooking recipes for all the industries in the economy...
Others of the poor are in equally bad shape, and some institutions that once succored them are unable to keep doing so. The Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission in Detroit, where a poor family once could stop in for a nourishing free meal, has exhausted its supplies of canned food, flour and even powdered milk...
...they planted a tenth of an acre - their front yard - last fall. They even tried to mill the wheat themselves but had problems. So they took their 100-lb. crop to a commercial miller, and Mrs. Hollon is still baking sourdough bread and making whole-wheat pancakes with the flour. Jack Hollon, a math teacher, estimates that the wheat crop and their vegetable garden have saved the family only about $50 so far. But the Hollons and their two young children are having fun with small-time farming...
...supplies increased. But canned fruits and vegetables rose slightly, and are expected to jump in the months ahead, in part because of the Teamsters' strike against West Coast canners. Wheat farmers are holding on to much of their harvests in hope of even higher prices later, and flour and bread snowed no decline, as they usually do in summer...
...consumers will be asked to pay as much as 900 to $1 per dozen for eggs, 800 per lb. for broiler chickens and $2 per lb. for pork chops and bacon. Lettuce, tomatoes, fresh fruit and other perishables will rise immediately. Also likely to leap are prices for cereals, flour and other wheat and corn products, oils, many canned goods and frozen foods. When the freeze ends in August, prices of many other items will...