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Died. Joseph ("Old Joe") Rank, 89, England's richest man, an inconspicuous centimillionaire; in Reigate, England. A tall, soberly tailored flour miller, in his Yorkshire youth he felt a call to the Methodist missions, decided instead to follow Methodist Founder John Wesley's injunction: "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can." In his fortunate grain deals he counseled with God. When his World War I profits distressed him-and Premier Lloyd George told him that only an Act of Parliament could take his business out of the black-he turned...
...Prosperity Sphere. In Hsinking, Manchukuo, the Jap-controlled radio announced that "delicious bread and biscuits" could now be made of 60% flour, 40% superior Manchukuo dirt...
...gilt medal the heroic baker has to observe these stern commandments: bake excellent bread; build field ovens quickly; economize in the use of flour, butter and firewood; take care of the equipment; camouflage; be clean...
...Journal of the American Dental Association last week, Dentist S. G. Harootian told how he gave the Deaf Smith treatment a preliminary clinical trial in a Massachusetts madhouse. Dr. Harootian gave capsules of bone flour (rich in calcium, phosphorus and fluorine) to nine women whose teeth were decaying very rapidly. Decay seemed to stop almost at once. During the nine-month trial no tooth decay spread, only one new cavity developed. One hole, drilled for a filling but left empty, did not decay...
...blazed on the beach, her stores of flour, raisins and rice fermented. "A moonshiner's dream," the exec called it. "We could have made enough liquor to supply the whole station, including the press...