Word: corns
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...some policymakers are beginning to look at an idea for motor fuel that was tried by American farmers in the 1930s: a mixture of 90% gasoline and 10% alcohol known as gasohol. Already it is selling briskly at about 500 filling stations in the Midwest Plains states, where the corn from which alcohol is commonly made is abundant. The blend is hailed by its champions as a wonder that yields about the same mileage as unleaded gasoline and offers an ever renewable source of energy. Moreover, gasohol could, if it replaced gasoline as a standard fuel, cut perhaps as much...
...staunchest backers of gasohol are farmers. If gasohol were to become a standard motor fuel, the nation's production of grain-corn, barley, oats and the like -would have to be increased by at least 50%. But, as gasohol advocates point out, the Government now encourages farmers to hold down their grain crops, so expanding production would not be too difficult. Moreover, alcohol can be produced from a variety of infinitely renewable sources. Though U.S. distillers now use mainly corn as their alcohol base, experts assert that just about any substance with a high starch or sugar content could...
...Minuteman hitters in order before yielding consecutive singles to Doug Welenc and Leo Kalinowski to put men at first and third. UMass DH Mark Litano then popped Keyte's next offering to first base. But the wind, which had circled the field all day, turned the can of corn into a can of worms for Harvard, as a Bingham miscue allowed Welenc to score from third...
Felix Rohatyn, 50, partner, Lazard Frères, New York City. He has made only one major investment in the past six months, a house on 2½ acres in Southampton, N.Y. "If worse comes to worse, I can always plant some lettuce and corn and live off the land," he says. Rohatyn is filling his house with antiques because "what I paid $1,000 for this year, I probably could have bought for $300 two years ago, and probably would have to spend $2,000 for a year and a half from now." He also cites as a "spectacularly...
Some San Joaquin farmers have coped by switching to corn, barley and other salt-tolerant crops, but this is a stopgap measure. Explains William Cerutti, 58, who tried growing walnut trees on his 700 acres: "The roots got down and they started getting to the salt. The tips start drying up, and within two or three years the trees keel over, completely dead...