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Died. Edmund P. Pillsbury, 37, vice president of Pillsbury (flour) Mills, Inc., Alfred D. Lindley, 43, socialite sportsman, and Dexter L. Andrews, 38, all Minneapolis business leaders; in the crash of a light plane piloted by Pillsbury; near Paxton...
...Buffalo last week, General Mills temporarily closed down the world's largest flour mill (3,700,000 Ibs. daily). For lack of freight cars, the company was unable to ship its flour to market. The shortage also hit grain shippers in the Grain sit where old-crop wheat was piling up-one Colorado town with 300 carloads to move could get only 30 cars. The Association of American Railroads said that the U.S. was facing the worst shortage of freight cars in railroading history
Died. Walter Geist, 56, president since 1942 of Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (farm tractors and harvesters, generators, road graders, sawmill and flour-mill machinery); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Son of Norwegian immigrants, Geist quit, school at 15 to go to work as an Allis-Chalmers errand boy. In 1949 he ran a $351 million business...
Some small part of the credit for Turkish success in Korea may be due to U.S. bakers, who have learned to make a heavy bread that suits their gallant allies-using wheat and rice flour and olive oil. A U.S. colonel who visited Korea brought back to Washington last week the text of a classic message sent by the Turks to a U.S. supply depot: "Enemy attacked, we attacked. Send us more bread...
There are thousands of asteroids (minor planets) and billions of smaller objects wandering around the sun. When they collide, as they often do, they turn a great deal of rock into flour-fine dust. If the collision takes place, as on earth, under a thick atmosphere, little of the dust escapes. When neither of the colliding objects has an atmosphere, much of the dust splashes out into space, each particle revolving around the sun on an orbit...