Word: flours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solution of the waste plutonium problem. They found that certain "zoogleal" bacteria (which form gelatinous masses in sewage-disposal systems) have a hearty appetite for plutonium. So they filled a tank-with stones inoculated with bacteria, and trickled through it artificial sewage made of water, sugar, ammonium phosphate and flour. When the bacteria were well established, they were fed some of the deadly waste water. The helpful bugs removed from 90% to 95% of the plutonium. A series of such tanks could reduce the water to complete harmlessness...
...Scare-buying and hoarding had slackened off but still prices crept up. Since Korea, meat had jumped 10% and 15%, butter and eggs were up at least a few pennies. Coffee, which had been riding high even before Korea, had managed to jump another 6? or 9?. "Sugar, soap, flour-things you never bother to price before buying-have gone up," complained a West Los Angeles housewife...
...found cargo for American Export ships in so many South European, African and Near Eastern ports that the line came to be called the "Milkman of the Mediterranean." His business deals were legendary: when a Danish line tried to steal his customers by offering below-cost freight rates on flour, Gehan dug up so many flour orders for his rival that the Dane had to raise his rates to avoid ruin. Gehan wangled so much tobacco trade that the line cornered some 80% of all the Turkish-type tobacco freight to the U.S. Slater sold off slower ships, bought faster...
...menu card which offers a wide selection of chemical concoctions made from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses' (soya bean sludge and near nougat). A specialty of the maison is the 'Merrie...
...says. "It is sad to see such a noble race decline." To set a good example, he lived entirely on a diet of frozen fish for three years, something no white man had ever attempted. An attack of ague later forced him to vary the diet somewhat with flour-and-water biscuits...