Word: branning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conventional malt* to convert starches to sugars, which are then fermented by yeasts. So reported Leland A. Underkofler, Ellis I. Fulmer and Lu Cheng Hao of Iowa State College, who point out that molds instead of malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol yield per bushel of corn was about 2.8 gallons with the mold-bran compared to 2.5 gallons...
...exercised for five or six miles, then cleaned and groomed; if he has no mare to serve that day he lolls around in his stall from 9 to 11, then lunch; 12:30 p.m. to 4: more lolling; 4:30 p.m.: cleaned and fed again (eats oats, bran, Nevada hay and a mixture of timothy and clover); then tucked into the barn for the night...
When word comes, ground crews rush out to the planes, load them with bombing materials-a mixture of bran and sodium fluosilicate. Into the Nevada-Utah mountains the pilots fly until they see below them tumultuous marching armies of brown insects, so dense that they look like waves of molasses. Diving within 50 feet of the crags, the pilots drop their poisoned bait. The goggle-eyed, wingless crickets stop, eat, die-95% of them on warm days, 75% on cool days (when they are idler, less hungry...