Word: flouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OSWALD BATES LORD, 48, campaign-time co-chairman of the national Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon organization, to be U.S. representative on the U.N. Human Rights Commission, succeeding Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned. A flour heiress (Pillsbury Mills) with brains (Phi Beta Kappa at Smith College), efficient Mary Lord is the wife of a prosperous Manhattan textile manufacturer, mother of two sons, and a likely contender for the title of New York City's No. 1 committeewoman. Among her top posts: wartime chairman of Civilian Advisory Committee for the Women's Army Corps, president of the National Health Council, chairman...
...market place with their identification papers. The German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came in their pajamas. Marcelin Thomas, the town baker, appeared, stripped to the waist and still covered with flour, while Curé Jacques Lorich strode along hatless. Mothers came pushing baby carriages. In less than 20 minutes, the populace was assembled, about a third of them children. Only then did the French notice that these were no ordinary Germans...
THRUSTON BALLARD MORTON, 45, to be an Assistant Secretary of State. Tall, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 184 Ibs.), and a youthful-looking hustler, Morton is a seventh-generation Kentuckian from Louisville, a Yaleman (class of '29), and formerly head of his family's flour mill firm, Ballard & Ballard, which was bought out by Pillsbury Mills in 1951. In World War II he served with the Navy, a lieutenant commander on minesweepers and destroyers in the Pacific. He has had three postwar terms as a Republican Congressman, is an outspoken internationalist, led the pro-Eisenhower forces in Kentucky...
...hatful of sponsors (Pillsbury flour, Green Giant peas, Kellogg cereals, Lever Bros, soaps, Mars candy bars) pay him more than $350,000 a year, which is enough to let Art indulge his favorite hobby: investments. "I love business," he says. He owns all or part of a Colorado lead mine, a Mexican magnesium plant, nine producing oil wells in Oklahoma and Texas, a low-voltage wiring company, a modeling school, a roller-skating arena, a gas well and a batch of California apartments. The only shadow on his contentment is cast by certain radio & TV critics who, Art' complains...
...Cookies: 1½ cups sifted flour, ¼ teaspoon each of soda, salt, vanilla; 1½ cup each of butter or shortening, and brown sugar; 1 egg; 1 egg yolk; 1 egg white; ⅛ teaspoon maple flavoring; 1 cup pecan halves. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, then egg and egg yolk; beat well. Add flavorings. Add dry ingredients gradually; mix thoroughly. Arrange pecan halves in groups of three on greased baking sheets to resemble head and hind legs of turtle. Mold teaspoonsful of dough into balls. Dip bottoms in egg white and press...