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...this World. Backman believes it very unlikely that life originated on the earth; he thinks it more probably started in the more favorable atmospheres containing methane and ammonia gases which surround planets such as Jupiter, Venus and Mars. From them, he says, living organisms may have been transported to the earth by meteorites or by the propulsive power of the sun's rays...
Electrifying food news came last week from St. Louis. There, in a vat the size of a small room (1,000 cu. ft.), molasses, ammonia, water, air and yeast were being mixed. Every twelve hours this mixture produced a ton of good rich meat-nearly as succulent as the sirloin steak it takes two years to raise on the hoof, much cheaper, and much richer in proteins and vitamins. Furthermore, this new synthetic meat is so easy to make that its inventors already look forward to performing a modern miracle of the loaves & fishes after the war among the foodless...
...Powder for the Future. Anheuser-Busch is now geared to produce millions of pounds a year. The process: 125 lb. of yeast is planted in a vat containing 7,000 gal. of water, a ton and a half of molasses (on whose sugar the yeast feeds) and ammonia (which provides nitrogen that the yeast converts into protein). The mixture is kept warm, stirred by 1,000 cu. ft. of air a minute (without air the yeast would ferment the sugar). After twelve hours the prodigiously growing yeast, having multiplied its original weight 16 times, is a ton of flavorsome food...
...Pont's process, now used in all hexamine plants, combines liquid formaldehyde and liquid ammonia to form hexamine by a secret method. The solution is then passed into an evaporator, where it is boiled down into crystalline form. This substance is dried, ground and shipped in powder form to explosives plants. Said a Du Pont worker: "We never see the finished product. But Hitler does-plenty...
Unlike TNT, which calls for ammonia, sulfuric and nitric acids and toluene, hexamine requires no critical materials. Its basic raw ingredients are coke, air and water. Total production in U.S. in '1941 was 4,000,000 lb. New factories built since then have multiplied that output many times. But before war came, hexamine was a minor industrial product. Its chief uses then were in the manufacture of plastics and as an ingredient in an antiseptic for the urinary tract...