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Third largest of U. S. flour milling companies, Commander-Larabee Corp. (headquarters: Minneapolis) last week became a little bigger by a strategic purchase. It acquired, for an undisclosed price, G. B. R. Smith Milling Co. of Sherman, Tex., which has a 2,000-bbl. daily flour production and a million bushels storage capacity for wheat. Its location assures Commander-Larabee of a supply of Gulf grain and cheap water transportation to the Atlantic Seaboard. With the addition. Commander-Larabee has 14 flour mills with a 40,000-bbl. capacity and storage space for 30,000,000 bu. Commander-Larabee plans...
Still rationed (purchasable only on presentation of a card) are bread, flour, meat, oil, gruel, sugar and Russia's beloved butter & herring. Men's clothing was not taken off the ration list, but the ration per man per year was increased...
...Association's Journal last week detailed its handling of Norman Baker. He flourished at Muscatine, Iowa, in a region of many unorthodox Corn Belt medical ideas.* Originally the man was a die-&-tool maker, then a builder of calliopes. Somehow he got into merchandising, sold radios, storage batteries, flour, coffee, canned fruits, silverware, brooms, alarm clocks, overcoats, mattresses, motor car tires, typewriters, paints...
...Knoxville, Tenn. they bought 1,000 bottles of milk, hundreds of pounds of bacon, flour, beans and loaded it all into three trucks. First objective was Pineville, in Bell County. After that they planned to proceed to bloody Harlan, distributing the food at miners' mass meetings. Before they left Knoxville, Mr. Frank received a telegram from the mayor of Pineville to the effect that there were no mines near his town, that Pineville did not need Mr. Frank's food and that no mass meetings would be tolerated. The party chose to go on despite this cold welcome. Off through...
...Lima, Peru, Mardi Gras revellers, unable to afford confetti, threw maize, rice, water, flour, soot...