Word: bran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thin persons may relieve constipation by eating more cream (three to four oz.) and butter (at least one-eighth of a pound). Bran is "a material unsuited for human consumption and should be relegated to the barn. . . ." Often it proves harmful, sometimes obstructs the large and small intestines. A couple of cups of coffee a day are helpful, for coffee contains a drug, caffeol, which has laxative properties. Some persons react to a few glasses of water in the morning when their bowels are on "trigger edge...
Concentrating on the 'hoppers, however, were WPA, CCC, State highway crews, and of course the farmers. The U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine already has spent $2,500,000, and provided gratis 188,700 tons of deadly delicacy beloved by grasshoppers, a mixture of bran and sodium arsenite. The Bureau will ship enough more to spread 40,000,000 acres with poison bait by season's end. So that the grasshoppers will take readily to the fare, it is mixed with sawdust and water or molasses, flung over infested fields from buckets, or spread from barrels...
Most effective counterattack is to spread poison bait, usually a mixture of bran, sawdust and sodium arsenite. Colorado Entomologist S. C. McCampbell has designed a mechanical spreader which. manned by three men, does the work of 25 men with shovels. Some farmers put their faith in the "hopper dozer," a shallow tank about 20 ft. wide, filled with kerosene, which is mounted on wheels or runners and pulled along by a horse at each end. Rising from the back edge of the tank is a screen of tin or oilcloth. At the approach of the "dozer" the grasshoppers leap into...
...Science last week found a new, cheap and effective poison against the pests. Its significant ingredient is Epsom salt (magnesium sulphate), the common medicine cabinet drug ordinarily used for purging, poulticing, reducing. The formula which the discoverers, Mr. & Mrs. Hubert W. Frings of the University of Oklahoma, recommended contains bran (60% to 65%), molasses (15%), Epsom salt (20% to 25%), and enough water to moisten. This formula, they say, ''seems to be just as effective as the [common] 5% arsenic bait, it is cheaper, and it is absolutely harmless to humans, cattle, swine and poultry or other birds...
Under house arrest at his estate in Snagov, Prince Nicholas of Rumania, stripped by his brother King Carol of all royal and military rights (TIME, April 19), assumed the name of Mr. Bran (from one of his mother's castles in Transylvania), wrote a letter shushing the Iron Guard's Nicholas-for-King agitation which had alarmed Carol...