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...list of minor inconveniences in packaging is endless: scouring-powder lids that rust, cylindrical salt and oatmeal containers that take up unnecessary room; jars too hard to open; vacuum lids impossible to close...toothpaste caps that get lost; bags of flour that invariably spill; bread that goes stale because of skimpywrapping...
...families employ sharecroppers to raise cane, corn and cotton on relatively productive land, keep their workers bound by insuring that they are forever in debt to the plantation store. In the dry inland area, more than half of the 26 million people are regularly reduced to living on cactus flour; large numbers line the roads...
...returned to politics, winning a second lackluster term by 3,000 votes. By 1940, when the aging Farmer Jim instructed her to try one more time, the Ferguson flame had guttered out. Ma was beaten by, of all people, W. Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, a flour miller and hillbilly singer. After Jim Ferguson died in 1944, Ma retired to the house he had built for her, overlooking the State Capitol in Austin. And there, last week, she died at 86-a lesson in loyalty, a footnote to history, a touch of forever Texas...
...Nashville, Tenn., one of the local mills advertises a self-rising ingredient for flour and meal known as Hot Rize. For the past nine years, the fortunes of Hot Rize have been rising with a couple of hillbillies-Banjo Player Earl Scruggs and Guitarist Lester Flatt-whose musical style on Grand Ole Opry is uncannily like the gassy product they represent on the show. Scruggs and Flatt are the country's leading practitioners of a particularly corny style of country music known as "bluegrass." And, thanks in large measure to the efforts of the twanging pair, bluegrass is enjoying...
...Canadians. To raise money, the Chinese Communist authorities borrowed a technique developed by the Russians in the hungry 1930s. Overseas Chinese, presenting hard currency in Hong Kong banks, can buy special coupons to send to their hungry relatives in Communist China, where gratified recipients can exchange the coupons for flour, blankets and hams. Desperate Communist officials are scouring the countryside for hoarded silver coins and old jewelry, which can be melted down and shipped to London, where sales of silver leaped from $2,000,000 during the first six months of 1960 to $9,000,000 during the first four...