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While wheat production has been rising, per capita consumption has been falling -due at least in part to the nation's preoccupation with the bulging waistline (see BUSINESS). In 1910, U.S. citizens used an average of 211 Ibs. of wheat flour apiece. In 1952, they used only 130 Ibs. So far this year, shipments abroad have fallen more than 100 million bushels below the same period of last year. Chief reasons: 1) shortages created by World War II have largely abated; 2) wheat-hungry nations do not have enough dollars to buy American wheat; and 3) the Government-supported...
Carver had one great objective: to free the South from industrial bondage to the North. With tools originally assembled from scrapheap oddments, he developed more than 300 synthetic products from peanuts, including cheese, soap, flour and linoleum, and more than 100 products from the sweet potato. "I go into the laboratory," he once said, "and God tells me what...
...hungry Easy Germany, and gave the Reds a chance to refuse it. They did, calling the offer an "insult," and thereby stood convicted of condemning East Germans to hunger. U.S. food supplies would still be shipped to Germany, and pictures of U.S. freighters, Hamburg-bound with milk, lard and flour, blazed in Europe's newspapers...
...Mass, was testing 70 commercial contraceptive jellies and creams when he remembered that common salt was reputed to be a good sperm-killer. Dr. Gamble tried it in the test tube and it worked. He combined it with several jellies and it still worked. Finally he hit upon rice flour as a cheap base material, widely available...
...that is necessary, Dr. Gamble believes, is to boil a handful of rice flour in a pan of water for half an hour with enough salt to make a 10% solution, and let it cool. The resulting jelly is now being tested by doctors in Japan, India and Pakistan...