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...Will Stay." A more common attitude was expressed by a Tangshan miner in blue dungarees, driving a donkey cart heaped with coal. "My life is now bitter," he said. "For ten shifts I get a bag of flour. For 20 shifts I get a ration of coal." Would he flee if the Reds came? The miner snorted. "Flee? Flee where? To America?" A crowd of workmen chorused their agreement. "Nothing could be much worse than our life now," said one. "We will stay...
Tacho is in on virtually all new businesses starting in the country. Last fortnight he made a new deal for a percentage in a flour mill. He runs the salt and match monopolies, gets a percentage from the electric power companies. Lately, son Tachito has been cut in on the gravy. He got a 40% share in a new airline hauling mining machinery from the U.S. and meat to Cuba. When a Nicaraguan worked up a profitable new business shipping monkeys to the U.S., Tachito heard about it. Now a Somoza is in monkey business...
...years U.S. millers have been using in their flour a compound called nitrogen trichloride. It bleaches wheat flour and saves months in the aging process (hence the trade name: Agene). It is now used in 80% of U.S. white flour. Sir Edward Mellanby of Britain's Medical Research Council fed a concentrated diet of highly Agenized bread to dogs he was using in an experiment on nutrition, published the frightening results in the British Medical Journal two years ago. The flour had caused "running fits"; most of the dogs that did not recover in 30 minutes died...
Last week the Food & Drug Administration decided to take action.* It handed down a tentative order banning Agene as a bleaching agent for flour. If no exceptions are filed within ten days (so overwhelming is the evidence that none is expected), the order will become final. The bread industry will have until August 1949 to convert...
...Apparently by coincidence, the Russian news paper Meditsinsky Rabotnic (Medical Worker) chose last week to attack U.S. bread, praise Soviet bread. It bad-guessed that the U.S. Government would not forbid treating flour with such harmful chemicals as Agene because "such a way out is unsuited to the trust-owners - real bosses...