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Oriental seaweeds are not found on every U.S. dinner table, but they play a big enough part in U.S. diet so that wartime shortages are critical. So the harvesting of California kelp, which declined after World War I, is booming again. Kelp was formerly used for potash; giant kelp yields 50 lb. of potash per ton. Now seaweeds are wanted for their algin and agar-agar, used in dairy, bakery and confectionery...
...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...
...ushers, headed by Shun Kelp are as follows: C. N. Breed, Jr., N. I. Cahners, S. R. Calloway, G. V. Comfort, F. S. Deland, John Doorman, J. G. Duffey, W. S. Fits, Jr., Braman Gibbs, W. D. Harwick, F. J. Lane, N. P. Legate, F. R. Moseley, Jr., R. S. Play fair, B. C. Rigs, and S. D. Warren...
Ralph Ince, cineman, trolling for sea bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital...
...substitutes?nitrates from atmospheric nitrogen, rubber from carbohydrates, camphor from coal tar, coffee (Postum) from barley and wheats. There are no substitutes for potash or iodine. Yet chemists are already getting a little potash from the U. S. low-grade deposits along the Mexican border, iodine from seaweed and kelp...