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...busses. The grapevine added details to succinct communiques reporting the setbacks in Albania and the shake-up in the High Command (see p. 28). There were uncon firmed reports of rioting. In Rome there was grumbling over ever-increasing prices and the severe rationing of already frugal meals. Spaghetti, flour and rice were added to the list of rationed foods. Any farmer withholding his crops from compulsory storage was ordered imprisoned for a year...
That falleth on the flour...
...Mexico, a base from which to route supplies across the Mexican Isthmus bypassing the Canal. The embargo involved 700 flasks of mercury (for making explosives), 14 sacks of molybdenum (for making steel alloys), 2,000 tons of fluor spar (for making aluminum), such oddments as 1,700 tons of flour, 5,000 drums of gasoline and oil. But the scrap and certain petroleum products which were "practically Government monopolies" were held...
...chairman of the board and longtime crony of Texas' hillbilly Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel. With Brother Hal Houston Collins, president of Crazy, Stockholder Carr has a strong grip on Texas politics. Accredited with having helped start O'Daniel's Hillbilly Flour Co., Carr helped run the Governor's campaign, remains a close adviser, is sometimes called the power behind the throne. Glib Radiorator Hal plugs Crazy products and O'Daniel doctrine over company-sponsored broadcasts...
Even in the sorry wheat market, flour millers decided to cover their future needs, ,hereby rallying the price from 71? to 76?. The never bashful packers raised their prices on dressed meats as the pickup in trade activity reached them...