Word: flouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Dewey Allen, 58, onetime messenger at the New York Produce Exchange (oils, fats, grain, seed, feed, flour), was elected the exchange's 59th president. As a boy, Allen picked up pin money plucking pickle cucumbers on his native Long Island. Breaking in as a messenger on the exchange floor in 1914, he became floor trader for Munn & Jenkins, shipping brokers, later founded his Allen Shipping Co., worldwide middleman between shipowners and bulk cargo shippers. Allen saw duty in two world wars (from buck private to colonel), directed operations at the port of Antwerp in World...
...ostensibly discharged as a gesture toward disarmament, were being urged to settle in the New Lands of the Soviet Far East. In the party organizations, half a million young Communists were being pressured to "Go East." In the public press, special inducements (tax exemptions, individual grants, free grain and flour, and bank credits of $2,500 for the building of houses and barns) were offered to peasants and workers to stake their future in the Eastern regions. Propaganda painted the effort as a "Great Adventure," the prospect as the opening of a "New Frontier." Trainloads of Russian hopefuls trekking eastward...
Uchimura prayed to his Shinto gods to protect him from becoming a Christian, but to no avail. He was converted, and with six friends he formed a congregation. They met in a dormitory room, preached from a flour barrel, and rotated the office of preacher among them...
Recipe. In West Harrison, Ind., police searched for the vandals who broke into a store, smashed 48 dozen eggs, added several sacks of flour, salt and sugar to the batter, sprinkled liberally with pork loins, hams, bacon slabs, 48 roasting chickens...
...fertile breeding ground for contraceptives. Manhattan's Dr. Abraham Stone has experimented there with strings of beads to aid illiterate women in following the rhythm method of family planning. Boston's Dr. Clarence Gamble has suggested a cheap vaginal jelly made by boiling rice flour and adding salt...