Word: flours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firecracker makers started working around the clock catching up on time lost during the siege when their wares were banned. Said a shopkeeper on Flower Street: "Now we can have plenty of chaotse (steamed meat dumplings) on New Year's night. If peace had not come, flour would have been too expensive...
...Manhattan last week, R. H. Macy & Co. was hawking an odd item-dish towels made of old flour bags. And they were selling at a furious clip (30,000 in ten shopping days). Sears, Roebuck & Co. was also advertising them in its new spring catalogue (and sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes...
...bags for food, cotton men finally got up off their bales. With cotton bags at 32? (per 100-lb. bag) v. 10? for paper bags, cotton-bag makers had been getting by only because bakers were able to use cotton bags three and four times over in handling flour...
...week's end the Communists had set a time limit for a separate surrender of Peiping. With the fall of Tientsin, ECA cut off flour and wheat shipments to Nationalist China under a "watch and see" policy. Red capture of the city freed an estimated 150,000 Communist troops for new operations. It also gave them a direct rail route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east...
...Walk, Don't Run." At Shihkiach-wang, railroad hub on the Peiping-Han-kow line some 175 miles south of Peiping, an American reported perceptible economic progress since, his visit six months earlier. The Communists had started many small industries-weaving shops, flour mills, brick kilns, foundries, machine shops-which are flourishing. He found wealthy merchants still operating. Many women had permanents which they got in reopened beauty shops...