Word: flours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years ago in U. S. industry that business was thought of largely in terms of great basic commodities. Iron, steel, leather, lumber, copper, flour-these and similar staples constituted almost the entire structure of U. S. industry. That they still remain the backbone, the foundation, of industry is undeniable. Yet many of today's most successful industrial enterprises, remarkable both in their size and in their earnings, belong to the nonessential classifications...
...colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked up from the mate). She thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first nightgown was a flour sack which after many washings still proclaimed her ''Pure as drifted snow." One of her daily chores was to haul up water in a canvas bucket and swab down the poop-deck. As she hauled, one morning, a delicate blue sea-horse drifted by, his head emerging perky from...
...Roanoke Building, Minneapolis, opened last week a new Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchange, formed chiefly for trading in issues not listed elsewhere. A total of 1,288 shares was sold during the first day's trading, such famed names as Munsingwear (undergarb) and Pillsbury (flour) appearing on the list. There were 44 stocks dealt in by 41 traders. Exchange officers are: George F. Piper Jr., president; W. W. Eastman, first vice president; C. O. Kalman, second vice president; Neil P. McKinnon, secretary...
...still an unsettled problem in animal psychology. Snakes have little brain and much spine. They are quick to respond to stimuli, and perhaps react directly to seductive vibrations. More probably their swaying-it is no dance-is a conditioned reflex. Charmers feed their snakes well, in India with milk, flour balls and meat (frogs). And it is doubtless with mounting hope of meals that snakes raise themselves to the fakir's minor music. Charmers who have tried their art in U. S. zoos and serpentaria have always failed, despite all their wheezing and whining...
...king was seriously ill Buckingham Palace has been literally inundated with patent medicines and bottles containing unguents made from hundred-year-old recipes sent by well-wishers for His Majesty's recovery. . . . There are phials containing green, red, and yellow liquids; there are chest pastes made from fruits and flour, there are unguents of crushed ginger and honey which have been handed down in recipe from generation to generation, and there is a whole drawer full of protective amulets sent by villagers from nearly every county in the country...