Word: flours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Surplus Commodity Corp. got authority from Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to use its new $79,000,000 appropriation at once to buy surpluses of oranges, vegetables, peaches, flour, cereal products, to feed 2,000,000 needy families...
...nature thiamin appears abundantly in egg yolks, lean pork, crude molasses, peas and peanuts. It is found most abundantly in the germs of ripe grain. Millers discard such "hearts of wheat" to make white flour, causing Dr. Williams to cry: "Man commits a crime against nature when he eats the starch from the seed and throws away the mechanism necessary for the metabolism of that starch...
...Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. A month's provisions for each family of four consisted of: 2 lb. of dried beans, 4 Ib. of butter, 4 Ib. of prunes, 20 Ib. of cabbage, 8 stalks of celery, 15 Ib. of oranges, 2 Ib. of rice, 2 Ib. of potato flour, 24½ Ib. of wheat flour, 8 lb. of skim milk...
...bomb dropping event, two pound sacks of flour will be dropped over the side at a target from an altitude of 500 feet from level flight...
...take: At Gauley Bridge, W. Va., a hill being tunneled on a hydro-electric project turned out to be 90-even 99% pure silica, of great metallurgical value. Consequences: the silica, for greater speed, profit, was mined dry; the tunnel workers developed silicosis, died like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling compensations collected; a committee took the matter up before Congress. Net result: Bill blocked, investigation blocked; the workers left their flour bin, some continuing to die like ants, some beginning to think like Poet Rukeyser...