Word: flours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the Allies borrowed money from the U. S. during the War. But in 1920 onetime enemy Hungary, on the brink of famine, bought on credit 13,890 tons of flour from the U. S. Grain Corp. at a price of $1,685,000. Increased by the time it was funded in 1924 to $1,939,000 (including interest), Hungary's debt went into default with the War debts during the world crisis that provoked the Hoover Moratorium...
Since February 1933, the general U. S. price level has risen 32%, cost of living 24%, prices of farm products 118%, wholesale prices 45%, Moody's index of spot prices of basic commodities 140%, prices of copper 188%, lead 115%, eggs 73%, flour 69%. Listing these figures and many others in the December Atlantic Monthly, Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer commented: "That is inflation." Economist Kemmerer expects commodity prices to rise some 69% more and the cost of living to double. Nor is this a lone-wolf stand. Harvard's Professor Melvin Thomas Copeland made similar predictions last...
...richest men in China into bankruptcy when Chinese looted and burned his properties, believing him to be pro-Japanese. Philanthropist Lo headed the recently organized Shanghai Civic Association, suspected of being a Japanese-inspired group which wanted to make him mayor. Another of its members, Yung Tsung-ching, "The Flour King of China," said last week: "One cannot ride a two-headed horse and get anywhere. It is tragic, but true, that China today is virtually without a Government. During times like these citizens must fearlessly take charge of the situation in order to reduce want and suffering...
...where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another side road branches off to the Silent City of Rocks, 25 sq. mi. of massive granite fragments shaped like cathedrals, towers, skyscrapers, toadstools. Eighty-two miles from Pocatello is the largest potato-flour mill in the world. At Twin Falls, 42 miles farther, Shoshone Falls drops 212 ft. From the walls of Snake River Canyon, 32 miles on, Idaho's famed Thousand Springs gush enough water to supply all the big cities...
...flags, at latest reports, seemed to have saved considerable Chinese property from Japanese bombs, but tempers were fraying. Meanwhile U. S. Marines joined forces with British police and soldiers to break up a riot by 1,000 native workers striking in the International Settlement at the Chinese Fou Foong Flour Mill. Since it is within 20 yards of the Sino-Japanese battle sector, just across Soochow Creek, the mill hands demanded a month's salary in advance for working in such dangerous quarters, subsided after 25 strikers were admitted to hospitals "suffering from scalp wounds and tear...