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...Union Bank failed, a year after the American Savings Bank and Trust Co., and the John Deere Co. shut down six plants, throwing 716 men out of work. In surrounding Scott County a monthly average of 7,000 persons -10% of the population-were on relief, getting beans, flour and potatoes. People were understandably riled that Iowa farmers, angered by the low prices they were getting at the markets, were dumping milk on the roads. That year 38 persons committed suicide in the county, reflecting the 42% rise in Iowa's suicides since 1928, the year before the crash...
...Germany and Czechoslovakia. Private hard-currency bank accounts were legal, passports were relatively easy to obtain and the state provided the usual panoply of Communist benefits: guaranteed jobs, free medical care, factory-sponsored vacations. But this was not enough. Poles were tired of standing in endless lines: for meat, flour, sugar and other staples. They were tired of shoddy, overpriced goods, when they could buy the goods at all. They were tired of waiting eight to ten years for an apartment, and almost half that long for a car that cost 20 months' wages. As a striking worker...
With northern ports, factories and transportation at a standstill, sugar and flour shortages were mounting; gasoline was no longer available to the public in Gdansk. Communist Party Leader Edward Gierek, shaken by a purge precipitated by the workers' actions, seemed increasingly in jeopardy. Poland and the watching world were rife with rumors that Gierek's days in power were numbered...
...monotonous Russian diet is dominated by pork, potatoes and pickles, but certain of the country's foods are unsurpassed anywhere. Russian white flour, for example, is superb, making for the best of breads, cakes, pie crusts and blini. Milk, for some reason, is thin and watery, but the sour cream is excellent. Ice cream, rich and smooth, is among the world's best, though vanilla is usually the only flavor available. Kefir, a kind of cross between buttermilk and yogurt, is exceptionally good, as is a soft curd cheese called tvorog. Fruits and vegetables are found only...
...husband-and-wife research team at the University of Arizona, got $50,000 to develop their idea of using tumbleweed, the huge spheroid plant that grows wild on arid lands in the Southwest, as a burnable fuel. After harvesting, the bush is ground to the consistency of coarse flour and then compacted into log shapes held together by its natural resins. The 7.5-lb. "tumblelogs" have a heating value equivalent to a similar amount of hardwood...