Word: ibs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Meat Institute added cheer: September production of dressed beef, veal and lamb was 81 million Ib. above the preceding month...
Yeast. Besides the food yeasts developed by Anheuser-Busch (TIME, Aug. 9), there is an immense potential source of food in ordinary brewer's mash: Burkholder believes it could be converted into 200 million Ib. of yeast a year, half of it protein and convertible into edible products...
Richard Mortimer's excitement was dampened by professional botanists, pend ing further inquiry. Many a weed contains latex: for example, swamp milkweed yields 45 Ib. per acre, goldenrod 75 Ib. But 4,000 Ib. per acre is ten times as much as the average output of Malaya's richest rubber plantations...
Minus "passenger comforts" (food cupboards, pillows, oxygen, stewardesses), two 21-passenger DC-35 were turned over to the freight run, still equipped with seats for quick reconversion if necessary. But ground crews managed to pack in 4,000 to 6,000 Ib. of high-priority cargo (including mail) for each flight...
...jacked up with Rube Goldbergian extra belts, pulleys and paddles. But by the following Sunday the order was done, four hours before the promised delivery time. By that time the plant was half-wrecked, as equipment collapsed under the strain. Then the Army asked for another 200,000 Ib. by the following weekend. At that point Standard threw in its big Pittsburgh grease plant, while more Army trucks dashed all over western Pennsylvania gathering up extra drums and materials...