Word: agar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME FOR GREATNESS-Herbert Agar-Little, Brown...
Said Editor Herbert Agar, in his new book (A Time for Greatness; Little, Brown; $2.50): ''Our Government as we are now conducting it is not good enough. This is no day to permit expensive travesties of democracy. The people demand simplicity and openness and highmindedness. They are given 'politics as usual.' They ask for the bread of a true democracy, and they are given a stone which is not only inedible but moldy...
...Other Agricultural Department chemists revealed new wartime medicinal uses for pectin, the chemical in apples which makes jelly jell. Working on Navy orders the chemists discovered: 1) pectin paste and tannic acid is a natural for battle burns; 2) pectin is a good stand-in for Jap-controlled agar-agar, intestinal lubricant...
...enough part in U.S. diet so that wartime shortages are critical. So the harvesting of California kelp, which declined after World War I, is booming again. Kelp was formerly used for potash; giant kelp yields 50 lb. of potash per ton. Now seaweeds are wanted for their algin and agar-agar, used in dairy, bakery and confectionery...
...Agar-agar is a gelatinous protein, essential in hospital laboratories for the culture and identification of bacteria and the testing of serums and antitoxins. Hitherto imported from Japan, it is now produced from another seaweed, only twelve inches high, which grows on the rocky sea bottom along the coast of Southern California...