Word: flours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Times change. Things are different today. Looking through The Saturday Evening Post of Oct. 5 I find the following ads- Boston Garter, Daisy Air Rifle, Chiclets, Holeproof Hosiery, Lea & Perrins, Florsheim Shoes, Van Camp's Pork & Beans, Packard cars, Gold Medal Flour etc., etc. The first 31 words of the first editorial entitled "The Howl and the Howlers," are "Glancing casually over a day's news we learn that investors, not knowing what Roosevelt will do next, fear 'that the little of value that is left to them will soon vanish...
...pure fun. And when he wanted to make a point for the good of all mankind, he used the kind of gentle irony that left no scars." Eddie Cantor said: "Any time you gave him a biscuit, he'd want to pay you back with a barrel of flour...
Meat prices have jumped noticeably, Westcott admitted, but because other commodities such as flour are cheaper the College has been able to organize menus on almost the same lines as in past years. Asked whether his office would seek more variety in foods during 1938-39, he said: "We have been going a good many years and have put a satisfactory lot of dishes together...
...facilitate defense of the area, and by week's end 1,000 of them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from Hankow. Foreign observers last week estimated that at least 60% of the machinery from the steel, iron, rice, flour and oil plants in the Hankow area had been moved into the interior. Along with the machinery went the thousands of workers...
...Extended its wheat export subsidy plan to flour. Fortnight ago W. Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman and Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas, suggested the idea. Last week AAA announced it expected to dispose of 5,000,000 bbl. abroad...