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...plowed under, it increases corn yields by two to sevenfold. As rich as alfalfa in protein and carotene, kudzu leaves can be used for grazing or cut as hay. Dehydrated, they also make a fine breakfast food, according to enthusiasts; some kudzu growers have gone so far as to concoct a recipe for Kudzup...
...Silo. Several months ago the National Better Business Bureau sent to a large number of suspected sharks the worst sample of lyric writing its staff could concoct...
Martin Heeren's job is huntingrare chemicals not sold by supply houses. U.S. chemists apply to his National Registry of Rare Chemicals to find missing ingredients for their experiments that it would take them weeks or months to concoct themselves-if they could make them at all. In its 16 months, the Registry has solved thousands of such problems; today it locates rare chemicals not only for chemistry laboratories but for Government agencies, the Army, even foreign governments...
...hour and a half after the people of the United Nations began celebrating Italy's surrender, Radio Berlin was still soothing its listeners with a musical program called Let Us Go On Dreaming. After sufficient time had passed for hard-pressed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels to concoct his explanations, the German radio let out the big, bad news by quoting Allied announcements, adding: "Marshal Badoglio, in the meantime, confirmed the capitulation in a broadcast from Rome, although the King of Italy on Sept. 8 rejected as slander the suggestion that Italy was thinking of capitulation." Later reactions...
Future policy dictates first, that readers will be given the opportunity to test their mettle in such devious ways as minute mysteries, jiffy quizzes, thrilling contests with cash awards and other such fiendish devices as the nimble minds of your correspondents can concoct. Secondly, we plan a program of cultural advancement...