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Before we left Chengchow the officials gave us a banquet. We had two soups. We had spiced lotus, peppered chicken, beef and water chestnut. We had spring rolls, hot wheat buns, rice, bean-curd, chicken and fish. We had three cakes with sugar frosting...
...that in Tientsin the price of a sack of rice-two months' supply for one person-had gone up from $12 (Chinese) to $100. Food riots broke out in Tientsin and Peking. In Tokyo, according to the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, so many Japanese were eating the bean curd waste usually fed to cattle that cows were giving only one-fifth of their usual milk supply...
Years ago dairies used to dump their surplus casein, later discovered their dumping grounds had become fertile fields. In 1898, Casein Co. of America started making casein commercially. Manufacturing process is relatively simple: after skim milk, which has a 3% casein content, has soured, the curd (crude casein) is separated from the whey; the curd is then washed, dried and ground into the finished product. Since 1921 U. S. production of casein has risen from 8,000,000 to 40,000,000 Ib. annually. Biggest consumers are paper makers (who use 70% of the yearly output for coating book, magazine...
...cigaret lighters, mousetraps, nails, pencils, or briar pipes-many of which had not been in evidence before they arrived. One Womack tripped on a bead. For the most part the Womack women did the falling, the Womack men acting as witnesses. Using such names as Opal Irkman or Bertha Curd, the Womacks had figured in at least 65 accidents which brought them $2,085. Most Womack claims were settled on the spot. Several netted nothing when adjusters remembered previous encounters. One who called on Mrs. Womack grew suspicious when she began to describe the wrong accident...
...National Juice Corp. was expanding its business of making orange juice in Florida, quick-freezing it, shipping it north to be delivered with the morning's milk. The National laboratories, headed by vitamin-expert Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum (TIME, April 6), were experimenting with two new products; soft curd milk and sweet acidophilus. More important, National was pressing, on two fronts, its bold expansion policy. For though people may weep during Depression, still they must eat and drink and National Dairy is marching steadily...