Word: flours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youg rooks, one-half pound of steak, one ounce dripping, one half pint stock, one ounce flour, pepper and salt...
...Wilted Flour. General Mills' plant in Buffalo, world's largest flour milling plant, shut down because of a slump in demand, was scheduled to resume this week at only 50% of capacity. The slump, which has slowed many other mills, was blamed on 1) Government red tape, which has slowed up export licenses, and 2) high prices...
...commodities high on the restricted list. Example: license No. 758,447 had been issued by the Department of Commerce for the export of a 1942 Buick car; the copy that went through the Custom House indicated that the license had been used to ship 1,000,000 pounds of flour to Brazil. The perforated word "validated," which made the license official, was forged...
...British, who have been importing 13,000 tons of flour a month, served notice that they would not import food for civilians after May 15. And how would Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...
...Government, which has been out of the market since last month's sharp break, was stepping back in, busy Mr. Anderson announced one afternoon last week. The Government, he said, was going into the market to buy 326,500 long tons of flour (equal to 9,300,000 bushels of wheat) for April export. Ordinarily, the Government keeps its plans to itself. The reason for this announcement, said Anderson, was to give the trade an opportunity to study the program before the market opened...