Word: floured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current activity on the Chicago Board of Trade, the world's largest commodity exchange, is a reliable indicator of future food prices, housewives might have to spend more at the grocery store next year for such basic items as bread, flour and meat. Grain dealers and agribusiness giants such as Ralston Purina and Quaker Oats sell and buy future contracts on the exchange-and each transaction really amounts to a bet on what commodities will actually sell for in one to nine months. Since November, the 124-year-old exchange's volume record and many of its price...
...Reader A.R. Heldt astonishes me when he says in his letter [Nov. 13] that all members of Jim Thorpe's generation were raised on "organic" foods. Was the widespread use of white sugar and bleached white flour organic? And did the people of Jim Thorpe's time have year-round access to fresh vegetables, fresh fruit and fruit juices...
...South Vietnamese government, some 300,000 people learned useful skills as clerks, mechanics, technicians, engineers. The war also brought forth all manner of entrepreneurs, from the black-marketeer to the small industrialist. Last year they built or expanded factories that produce textiles, plastics, detergents, bricks, ceramics and flour. South Viet Nam is abundantly endowed with highways, power lines, ports and well over 100 airfields?mostly built for the war but now in place...
Distribution of part of these purchases is expected soon to alleviate scarcities of staple foods, especially bread. The Russians intend to mill the fine-quality American and Canadian wheat for flour. Their own sparse grain crop will be used to provide cattle feed. But present shortages of feed have forced the Soviets to slaughter precious livestock herds that are insufficient even in the best of times. Although this may provide a temporary bonanza of meat this winter, it will also diminish supplies of dairy products...
DWAYNE O. ANDREAS, 54, Miami Beach, chairman of First Interoceanic Corp., chairman of the executive committee of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (flour and soybean products). Gifts: Humphrey, $75,000; Nixon, $25,000. His money earmarked for the Nixon campaign was later found by the FBI in the bank account of one of the original Watergate Five...