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...dynamite. Inositol has been so difficult to extract that only about 5 lb. are produced annually and the price is $500 per lb. Professor Bartow and his able associate, Dr. W. W. Walker, found a way to extract inositol from the water in which corn is soaked to make cornstarch. The 300,000,000 quarts of this "steep water" which the cornstarch industry throws away every year would yield by the Bartow-Walker extraction method 1,000,000 lb. of inositol at low cost. Final details of the process have been worked out in the past two months. "Until that...
...bakeries was Cushman's Sons' branch at White Plains, N. Y., 20 mi. north of the New York City boundary. Last week Cushman's Sons mixed the bulk egg yolks with vanilla, sugar, cornstarch, milk and water to make custard filling for cream puffs and eclairs. Four thousand such pastries were sold one day to consumers in White Plains, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Ossining, Scarsdale, Tarrytown and a score other communities. Next day two thousand eaters of those cream puffs and éclairs were violently sick at their stomachs, poisoned by pus germs in the custard...
Lesser Slim Figure Bath: "Every physician knows . . . that this absurd mixture of cornstarch, borax, baking soda, etc. can have not the slightest effect in the reduction of weight...
...Norfolk Island milch-goat. A year later the good creature was killed by wreckage in a squall, and Joan went on regular sailor's diet: duff pudding once a week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket of water), curry and rice, boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce-the Jap colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked up from the mate). She thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first nightgown was a flour...
Dust Fuel. The U. S. Department of Agriculture had a miniature device resembling a one-cylinder combustion engine. Into the cylinder was put a mixture of various kinds of carbonaceous dust-grain, sugar, cocoa, wood, even ground spices and cornstarch. When mixed with air and an electric spark administered, the dust exploded. Perhaps it was a new clue to the solution of the fuel problem. Chemist W. A. Noel of the Department had hit upon it when the carriage of his model grain elevator was blown to the top of its shaft like a motor piston and wrecked...