Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train, came the President-Elect of the U.S. If he gave thought to the soldiers ahead or to the "radical" bomb-plotters who had necessitated their presence, he did not show it. He gazed with placid satisfaction out of his car window at the Argentine's horizon-filling wheat ranches and pampas, at her myriad herds of kine and mutton...
...National Biscuit Co. there came last week Shredded Wheat Co.; to Uneeda Biscuit and other famed National Biscuit products was added Shredded Wheat. Holders of Shredded Wheat stock will be offered one share of National Biscuit for two shares of Shredded Wheat. Shredded Wheat had been for some time a rumor centre, one story being that the breakfast food company would be acquired by Gold Dust Corp...
...years ago that the idea of Shredded Wheat was first conceived. At that time (1893) one Henry D. Perky, a dyspeptic lawyer, was trying a lawsuit in a small Nebraska town. Breakfasting one morning at the community's only hotel, Lawyer Perky noticed a fellow breakfaster eating what looked like a saucer of whole wheat grain. He would take a large spoon and break up the cooked whole wheat, add milk and cream, and consume. Curious, Lawyer Perky asked questions...
...Wheat-man: I am eating boiled whole wheat...
Perky: Why are you eating boiled whole wheat...