Word: piecrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright new future for the sweet potato was revealed in Alabama last week. At Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Lamar Minis Ware, professor of horticulture, demonstrated a surprising array of new concoctions he had produced from sweet potatoes-candy bars, taffy, cookies, breakfast foods, ice-cream flavoring, piecrust flour, milk shakes...
...which to the layman's eye has seemed completed since it was occupied in 1935; the addition of 335 new employes to the Railroad Retirement Board; addition of 1,469 new workers to the Veterans' Administration (the State Department got only 35 additional employes). Sniffing such apparent piecrust, citizens could well ask: Where is the sacrifice? The broad outlines of the Budget were simple, partly because the size of the figures made them incomprehensible. In the current fiscal year, ending June 30, 1941, the President was trying to spend $13,202,370,970; would try to spend...