Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the sound & fury, OPA approved a 1? hike in the price of a loaf of bread, already cut 10% in weight to save grain. The increase, on the heels of OPA boosts in the price of butter and milk, looked like a lively hint of things to come...
...last the U.S. was sprinting in the race with world famine. Exports of U.S. grain exceeded U.S. promises for the first time during the last third of May. But early sluggishness had imposed a stiff handicap. To be as good as its word, the U.S. needs to ship abroad 1,712,407 tons during June, triple its improved performance for May. The box score...
...grain was there. How fast could it be moved? Actual shipments of wheat abroad still lagged behind U.S. promises (see box). Only a month remained to make good, and neither the rail strike nor the threatened shipping strike improved the slim chances of beating the deadline...
Nevertheless, the shiploads exported since Jan. 1 were already twice the total for the whole of an average prewar year, the rate of shipment greater than any in all U.S. history. By July 1, U.S. grain stocks promised to be as low as those in the drought-ridden...
Like so many research triumphs, this one had been almost an accident. Thirteen years ago a London, Ont. obstetrician named Evan Vere Shute became interested in vitamin E, whose natural sources are in whole grain; he had a hunch that it produced a salutary effect on heart and blood vessels. When a fellow member of his church-his only male patient-complained of tremendous heart pains, Shute put him experimentally on cold, pressed wheat-germ oil. For three months he got relief. When both patient and doctor ran out of funds, the treatment was abandoned...