Word: flours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great. In its first year of operation, the canal carried 40,000 westering Americans to the frontier, shuttled the products of the West back to New York harbor. It cut the cost of transporting a barrel of flour from Buffalo to New York from $10 to 30?; for years its tolls paid all state expenses. Is the Thruway a concrete Erie Canal? Not quite-but almost...
SELLING STUNTS of the big soap and flour companies will be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission. Specific target: cross-couponing, the system under which one company gives away coupons redeemable in another company's products. FTC will decide whether such combinations between big companies hurt smaller competitors...
...suggested that growers cut production. But as prices fell and pressure mounted, Benson yielded. Last week he announced that the Department will 1) buy a limited amount of potatoes for school lunch and welfare use, 2) pay a subsidy of 35? a hundredweight to divert potatoes into starch and flour production, and 3) join producers in potato-sales-promotion...
Stavros Niarchos is something of a man of mystery who manages to keep out of the public eye. Born in Greece in 1909, he studied law at the University of Athens before entering a small family flour-milling company that imported grain from Argentina. Noticing that most Greek millers, like his family, imported their grain in small lots, Niarchos soon organized import pools and went into the shipping business to handle the trade. He built up a fleet of six ships, turned them over to the Allies during the war, and put in a tour of North Atlantic destroyer duty...
...Manhattan, Funnyman Jackie Gleason made a flying exit from his TV show. Carrying an electric fan and a bag of flour, Gleason stepped on a slippery spot left by dry ice, catapulted offstage and into the wings. While the CBS switchboard was lit up by calls from anxious fans, he was rushed to Doctors Hospital where examination revealed Gleason had suffered fractures of his right leg and ankle, would be out of action for "several weeks...