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...bright idea of mixing a physic in bread flour occurred to a St. Louis trio named Edward Ownen, Frank Dawdy and Glenn Allmon, who composed Bakers' Research Co. That bread, a staple article of diet, should not be used to mask the presence of a cathartic, seemed sound to Chief Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Federal Food & Drug Administration. Mr. Campbell had the St. Louis three called to court where they were fined $600, "one of the largest recent penalties" imposed for a food & drug violation, Chief Campbell crowed last week...
...Harvard customs, previously unknown and first revealed by this "buttery" ledger, was a "quarter dinner" held in the college four times a year down to 1765. The college butler prepared these meals. For one meal, in August, 1729, according to the "buttery" entry, the butler purchased milk, eggs, sugar, flour, nutmeg, "legg" of mutton, pork, squash, butter, pigcons, bread, apple pie, and wine. This meal cost 1 pound, 8 shillings, 7 pence, or about...
Wheat & Corn reacted a few cents last week but grain surpluses are small. Flour was cut as much as $1.38 per bbl. Some bakers cut the price of bread 1? per loaf. In addition to having fewer taxes to absorb, biscuit bakers and packaged food concerns will probably gain from bigger volume at lower prices. Last year their attempts to pass the tax on to the consumers made many customers so mad that they organized "buyers' strikes." Starting as a protest against the high price of meat, these strikes were ultimately directed against nearly all high-priced groceries. Last...
...Kansas City last week the National Labor Relations Act, passed last summer to make employers bargain collectively with a majority of their employes, met its first constitutional test, went down to dusty defeat. Three Stouts, Charles, Warda and Alice, who own the Majestic Flour Mills at Aurora, Mo., appealed to U. S. District Judge Merrill E. Otis for an injunction against a Labor Relations complaint. A majority of the Stout employes had organized a union, and demanded higher wages. This demand was granted. Then the unionized majority demanded that only union members be employed, that no union member be discharged...
...absurd to say that the refusal of the owner of a flour mill to bargain collectively with his employes directly affects commerce among the States...