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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...
This week Cattleman Robert Justus Kleberg Jr. (pronounced Clayberg) was riding a range as fabled as Pecos Bill's. The liege lord of all the King ranches and all the King ranchers was winding up the great fall roundup on his many pastures. With his hard-riding vaqueros, amid...
New York City's LaGuardia Airport is the world's busiest airline terminal and sometimes one of the world's most dangerous. Its runways are short and crowded. When the weather is bad, as many as 25 planes "stack-up" within the airport's control area...
"The first step in any conservation plan should be a return to 85 percent milling of wheat flour," the professor said. Only about 70 percent of the food value of the grain is currently earmarked for human consumption, the remainder going to live-stock feed production.
During the war, flour milling reached 85 percent. "If we have a dry year in 1948, the situation will be very bad," the sociologist predicted.