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...result was a rush to get the wheat, meat and fats off the farms and moving in all directions overseas. The President's Cabinet subcommittee (State, Agriculture and Commerce) wanted a dark bread order, and controls on wheat and flour. The State Department wanted to raise the price of grain, luring farmers into selling it instead of feeding it to hogs and cattle. Secretary Anderson agreed, but Price Boss Chester Bowles paled at the thought of a general price rise. Honest differences of opinion seriously hobbled action. Said ex-UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman: the Administration had "failed...
...from the gilt onion domes of the city's churches, whose fresh paint will be ornamented with red and white flowers, hyacinths, roses and lilacs. For paskha and koulich, the elaborate cakes which, with colored eggs, are taken to the churches to be blessed on Easter eve, white flour can be bought with ordinary ration coupons. (Nonbelievers also rushed for white flour to make festive cakes for Red May Day, highpoint of Communism's liturgical year...
...economic emergency," China's Premier T. V. Soong has reported, "is no less serious than the war itself." Most urgently, China needs food; in the drought-scorched central provinces, millions are facing famine. T. V. has said that imports of wheat, wheat flour and rice can solve a third of his nation's most pressing economic problems...
First, a blonde show girl took a bath on stage. Then the announcer was hung by his heels from the rafters. At other times, paisanos kept things moving by eating through ten pounds of gelatin or gobbling up a pile of flour. Last week, two months after it began, Albricias y Sorpresas (Prizes & Surprises) had become the most popular of Mexico's 20 radio giveaways...
...rumor about new flour sacks, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...