Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there were milder settlers in California who dreamed of golden grain and ripe fruits. When a small group of these beheld. 30 miles east of busy, sprawling Los Angeles, a hill profuse with oranges, lemons, apricots, peaches, it was also quite natural that they should invoke an Italian legend and call the spot Pomona.* Pomona it became when it was settled...
...chemical names for wood alcohol and grain ("pure") alcohol are methyl and ethyl respectively. Beverages, being luxuries, are scarcely ever duty-free. But industrialists demand a duty-free alcohol for commercial purposes. Wood alcohol was devised to meet this need. It is simply denaturized "pure" alcohol. Denaturization means the addition of a substance which renders the original unwholesome. The wood-spirit and other substances used in the making of wood alcohol are poisonous. Hearty drinkers of wood alcohol are killed by paralysis of the nervous system...
Last week the German Federal Council made a full and specific explanation to German farmers over the radio, warning them against U. S. barley. The hogs developed the colic, it was explained, because the grain was tainted with a poisonous fungus, known to scientists as gibberella sanbinetti and to the U. S. farmers as "wheat scab...
...loadings numbered 1,138,312 the week of Sept. 15, the greatest number so far this year. Grain, livestock, coal, merchandise are moving in great quantities...
...Paul de Kruif found sensationalism enough to titivate a large public-he demonstrated fascination in the perverse antics of microbes, drama in the stolid heroism of hunters. More of the same, Hunger Fighters is a trustworthy though ebullient account of certain other men of science, unappreciated breeders of sturdy grain, students of cattle diseases, discoverers of fashionable vitamins. If the author coyly attributes an exasperated scientist with a few cusswords, or jazzes his pages with other self-conscious slang, it is but in his honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes the best of the highspots...