Word: flours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that," Alice cried eagerly. "You take some flour...
...department let 22 million bushels rot, while consumers groused at high prices, the Government is determined to put this year's potato surplus to use. It is going to do it no matter what the cost. So it is sponsoring a new industry: the manufacture of potato flour...
...Government is buying surplus potatoes at around $1.55 a bushel, and selling them to distillers and food processors at a give-away price of 9?a bushel. (The Government pays the freight, which averages another 40^ a bushel.) The. only condition is that the buyers turn the potatoes into flour. To help feed occupied Germany, the Army has promised to pay about $7 a hundred pounds for as much as 448 million pounds of potato flour, about 30 times the normal annual output. With a highly profitable market thus assured, dozens of companies have started making flour...
...catch is that a bushel of potatoes makes only ten pounds of flour. All told, the flour will cost the Government close to $25.60 a hundred pounds. That is five times what it has to pay for wheat flour. Meanwhile, the retail price of potatoes stands at $2.60 a bushel, twice the 1941 price...
...orange and white control tower, 13 G.I.s worked around the clock, surrounded by Coke bottles, cigarette smoke, and the brassy chattering of radios. The chaotic chorus of American voices was tense but happy; America was in its element. "Give me an ETA* on EC 84 . . . That's flour coming in on EC 72 . . . Roger . . . Ease her down . . . Where the hell has 85 gone? Oh yeah, overhead . . . Wind is now north northwest . . . The next stupid Charlie 47 has nothing on his manifest . . . Are you in charge of putting de-icer fluid in aircraft? Well, who the hell...