Word: kelp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vegetables, most food is absorbed in the small intestine and not enough bulk reaches the colon to cause automatic muscle contraction (peristalsis). The thing to do, says Dr. Bargen, is to get more bulk into the colon. Thus far, the job has been done awkwardly by sprinkling agar-agar, kelp and psyllium seeds on breakfast foods...
Each rickety hut (called a "han") shelters several families totaling 20 to 55 persons. U.S. authorities deal with each group through the "hancho," or leader. Camp Susupe's residents wear whatever clothing can be salvaged from captured supplies, eat from the Japs' rice, kelp and canned stores, and take what few food essentials the U.S. can spare. Recently families have been released during the daytime to cultivate green vegetables, which grow easily in Saipan's fertile ground...
...fair-sized power plant. Crude roads in some sections could accommodate the 50 or more trucks, some Fords, some Jap brands. The Japs were also victory gardeners. They had planted several small patches of vegetables. On the island were many caches of food: five-gallon wood-encased tins of kelp and hard crackers, 100-lb. bags of rice and a variety of canned fish. The Japs did not leave Kiska because they were in danger of starving...
...worn black for anarchists hanged after the Haymarket riots,* and who chiefly wrote of simple peasant lives, had ranged himself beside the Gestapo. To the big, white country house which success had brought him, after harsh years of poverty, winds bring the cool fragrance of sea and kelp, of grass and Norwegian earth. Outside the maples whisper. But in the house, now crammed with a painful store of books, the man who always loved solitude had won it, at last, in bitter measure...
...salad dressings, chocolate-milk drinks, ice cream, where it serves to stabilize the intimate mixture of oil or solids in water and to give a smooth texture. Buttermilk, cakes, icings, candy and even tooth paste are smoothed by a fraction of 1% of algin. It is extracted from the kelp after drying, pulverizing and alkali treatment. The kelp itself is harvested by giant scissors which cut the growth within three feet of the surface, do not seriously injure the magnificent treelike growth that extends hundreds of feet down to a holdfast attached to the sea bottom...