Word: funguses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ergot, a fungus which grows in rye kernels, contains a score of medicinal factors. It is used mostly to start contractions of the uterus at childbirth. The fungus is difficult to separate from rye husks, is expensive to produce. Most of it came from Europe. About 20,000 Ib. were produced in the Middle West last year...
True, the potato famine did help establish Free Trade. But how about those stout-hearted manufacturers (not industrialists) of Manchester who sacrificed their fortunes and in some cases their lives for the principles of Free Trade long before the fungus struck the potato crop...
...spite of the political fungus that was nurtured by such "statesmen" as Disraeli, Gladstone, Wellington and others who sinned against the light, it was finally cleansed from the British mind by the long and titanic efforts of John Bright, Richard Cobden and others of the Manchester school...
Another line of attack against plant fungi is to develop naturally immune strains by breeding. At the turn of the century long-fibred U. S. cotton was rescued from fungus by crossbreeding with a resistant Egyptian variety; in the 1920s Louisiana sugar cane was saved by supplanting the old "noble" strains with resistant breeds. In 1937 the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry estimated that more than one-fourth of U. S. farmlands were planted to disease-resistant crops...
...Fortnight ago a fungus was insured by Lloyds of London for $1,000,000. Policyholder is the Falstaff Brewing Corp. of St. Louis, which thus treasures its unique, 50-year-old brewer's yeast...