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...news. The acknowledged Hattie Carnegie of sack fashions - Vice President Richard Peek of Kansas City's million-dollar Percy Kent Bag Co., which supplies the nation's millers with most of their printed sacks-announced that he had not yet lost a single order because of dark flour...
Despite McNarney's optimistic estimate, the U.S. could hardly help without cutting its own 1,550 calories. The French zone was at the bottom of its flour bin. The Russians pointedly hinted that everything was all right in their zone; actually, they might soon be facing serious shortage themselves. The food crisis spurred hopes of a zoneless four-power administration of Germany...
...Latin America Carnival still flourished. In Rio de Janeiro, the army guarded tumultuous streets of richly costumed revelers against excesses. In Quito, Ecuadoreans indulged in a week's frenzy of drenching each other (and especially policemen) with water-bombs and buckets, strewed flour on passersby...
...painless way of meeting commitments to export six million tons of wheat by July i, flour millers last week began to extract 80% of the wheat kernel instead of the customary 68 to 72%. This was no great hardship for U.S. citizens. What the new flour* lost in snowy whiteness it would gain in nutritive value; U.S. bread, usually flat, poor stuff, would gain in taste...
Nevertheless, the new flour might be raising more problems than it solved. Higher extraction meant 30% less "mill-feed," the residue from milling which farmers feed their livestock and poultry. With feed already short, chances were that farmers would hang on to their wheat for feed. They had another reason. They hoped to have ceilings taken off farm products. Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson tried another method, not so painless, to get grain. He boosted the ceiling prices on wheat, now $1.80½ a bushel at Chicago, 3?. Up also went corn, 3? oats, 2? and barley...