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...staunch Methodist, like his late multimillionaire father who had made a fortune in. the flour-milling industry in Great Britain, Rank entered the film business to produce religious shorts. But in ten years he has become the most successful producer in England, head of the United Kingdom's biggest chain of movie theaters, and as a result of a deal made last year, exchanges films with 20th Century-Fox Film Corp...
Snigeroff's Nose. Drunkenness was regarded as an affliction rather than a misdemeanor. Nobody except Helen minded the endless consumption of a beverage brewed by "tossing sugar, flour and yeast-and sometimes a handful of rice or half-rotten fruit-into a dirty butter barrel" filled with water and allowing the mess to "make" for four days. "Don't be silly," said Thornie, dismissing Helen's alarm at the battle royal which invariably accompanied this wassail. "The boys are just having a good time. Just like kids. . .They really enjoy...
Western Europe. Very limited quantities of emergency food supplies (flour, coffee, chocolate, sugar, salt, etc.) have been shipped into France, Belgium and The Netherlands. But since all three of these nations are "paying" countries in the UNRRA pool, they will receive no regular UNRRA supplies. Some 60 UNRRA teams of 13 workers each are now in Western Europe, helping to repatriate foreign workers. UNRRA does not feed the displaced persons (the U.S. Army does that...
Bess Wallace had gone to high school at Independence, Mo., where her family ran a flour mill, lived in quiet prosperity. When she married Harry Truman, they went to live with her widowed mother. In the nation's capital last week Mrs. Truman did the housework in her sunny, five-room apartment, as she had done it back home. Every morning she got up at a little before 7 to get the Vice President's breakfast-always fruit, milk and toast. She had given up trying to find a maid. Almost every evening she cooked supper, sometimes sighing...
...even if the Eastern railroads could spare that many, cars for delivery to the Midwest, there was not much chance of the cars staying there. Last week the grain trade reported that the Army was in the market for 140 million bushels of wheat, 900,000 tons of flour for shipment overseas. Thus as fast as cars arrived in the West they would be loaded with Army grain and flour and shipped back to the Eastern Seaboard at the rate of 35,000 a month by midsummer...