Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 27, under Science, you report the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society and, in your item Explosives from Corn, there is a gross misstatement which reflects greatly on the ability of the many chemists in the corn products industry. The statement at fault is: "300,000,000 quarts of the 'steep water' which the corn starch industry throws away every year...
...steep water" is thrown away. In the manufacture of starch, the corn is first "soaked" or "steeped" in a dilute sulphurous acid water for approximately 36 hours. This soaking removes the soluble mineral matter, gums, dextrins, sugars and proteins to make "steep water." The germ is next removed, and expressed for oil. Hull and fibre are then separated, leaving corn "gluten," and starch, which are separated by flotation. The corn "gluten" which contains approximately 30% unremoved starch, is combined with the hull, fibre and steep water to make a product - corn gluten feed, which is sold to the dairy industry...
Henry Louis Mencken has filled some 15 books and countless heads with his brilliant palaver. The Billiken-god of a generation that read his Smart Set like so many monthly revelations, he emancipated many a corn-fed adolescent. Mencken was an iconoclastic prophet but not an indignant one. "As an American," he said once, "I naturally spend most of my time laugh-ing." And his brilliance, like that of his fellow-iconoclast, Bernard Shaw, has not always done him justice. Some of his trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects...
...Paradox of Corn...
...present position, Mr. Wallace finds himself in a strange paradox. Whereas in 1926 he completed a system of inbreeding corn in such a way that the annual production of the country was increased, he is now engaged in the seemingly hopeless task of getting rid of a huge surplus. His ideas on the subject, expressed in his recent publication, "America Must Choose," relate the surplus question to the tariff. As his solution of the problem, Mr. Wallace advocates a "middle course" of reciprocal trade agreements...