Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Idaho's Senator Borah purposes shipping it to the hungry Chinese (who do not know how to eat wheat) . . ." records TIME, April 6, p. 14, but says the China Year Book...
...consumption of wheat flour is reported to be continually increasing in the Far East, and in North China in particular, to which factor the present world shortage may be partly attributed...
Also enlightening are the figures on China's wheat...
...Normal wheat crop 27,067,661 piculs...
...from not knowing how to eat wheat are the Chinese. Many miles of noodles (mien), fried, boiled, cooked with egg, chicken, beef or pork, are lifted annually by Chinese chopsticks, slithered and sucked into Chinese mouths. North of the Yangtze Kiang steamed bread (mantos), made of wheat flour, is a chief part of the diet. In Yenching University dining halls, 128 Cantonese boys eat rice, 300 Northerners eat bread, all eat noodles...