Word: cornstarch
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...specially nourished cultures of bacteria or fungi. Today they treat skins in place of dog manure, keep bottled beer from looking cloudy by digesting the haze of protein that forms when it is chilled. But newer uses are constantly developing. Dr. Beckhorn is working on enzymes to turn cornstarch into syrups specially suited for baking or candy making, and on enzymes that can be injected by multiple hypodermic needles into whole sides of beef, the dose carefully calculated to bring each cut of meat to ideal tenderness...
...Christ and onetime graduate student at Oxford who reads his Bible in Greek, Miller is also a moneymaking tycoon with a personal fortune that tops $100 million, the owner of a company (Cummins Engine) that builds more truck diesels than any other on earth, plus a bank, a cornstarch company and a chain of supermarkets. When he speaks to businessmen, they listen. Currently conducting his own mission to millionaires. Miller has spoken with effect to groups in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Phoenix and Amarillo...
...After a word from the sponsor (Corn Products Refining Co.-salad oil, syrup, cornstarch, etc.), the Attorney General of the U.S. grasped his lectern mike, crisply reported that the Department of Justice was about to start a civil action under the antitrust laws against General Motors, charging it with "unlawful activities which have given it a monopolistic position in the manufacture of buses...
...last week turned the rank and echoing Garden cellar into a tonsorial riot. Handlers and owners worked over their charges like anxious mothers. Long hair was stripped and scissored, combed and brushed; paws were groomed. "Of course it's illegal," muttered one handler vigorously covering black smudges with cornstarch. "But what in hell are you supposed to do when you have to travel 500 miles with a white poodle...
...longer felt so strongly on the subject. A change of heart was admitted by Brooklyn Democrat Victor Anfuso who, although a member of the Agriculture Committee, had said at one point in the debate: "Frankly. I couldn't tell the difference between buckwheat and cottonseed, or between cornstarch and non-fat milk powder." What Anfuso could tell the difference between was $1.25 and something less...