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...Streussel recipe: half cup of butter, eight tablespoons of sugar, one grated lemon rind, one pinch of cinnamon, four cups of cake flour. Mix, break into rough crumbles, spread thick on yeast-raised coffee cake...
...Wireless, Ltd. But he is also on the board of big Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd., which controls eleven subsidiary insurance companies; of Santa Rosa Milling Co., Ltd., which has Chilean and Peruvian subsidiaries; of London & Northeastern Railway Co., Central Argentine Railway Ltd., the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., Crown Flour Mills, Ltd., United Baltic Corp., Ltd., of companies dealing in tobacco in Dublin, telegraph services in Africa...
...against pacifism to which its adherents will be subjected, suggests various courses of action in such dilemmas as: whether to refuse to pay war taxes ("nothing more than a gesture"), whether to fly the U. S. flag ("whichever action he takes, he will be misunderstood"), whether to economize on flour and sugar (possibly, as a means of helping needy pacifists...
Once more Italian peasants seemed to be out of luck. Last year the Government mixed wheat flour with so much corn there was not enough left for polenta (corn meal mush) without which life for an Italian peasant is not worth living. Polenta-less peasants raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...
...McCarrison established in India [in the early 1920s] a thoroughly healthy rat colony. The [1,189] stock rats were fed a diet similar to that eaten by certain peoples of northern India, among whom are some of the finest physical specimens of mankind. The diet consisted of whole-wheat flour, unleavened bread lightly smeared with fresh butter, sprouted Bengal gram (legume), fresh raw carrots and cabbage, unboiled whole milk, a small ration of raw meat with bones once a week. . . . During two and a quarter years [about 70 years for human beings] there was no illness among these rats...