Word: kernels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painless way of meeting commitments to export six million tons of wheat by July i, flour millers last week began to extract 80% of the wheat kernel instead of the customary 68 to 72%. This was no great hardship for U.S. citizens. What the new flour* lost in snowy whiteness it would gain in nutritive value; U.S. bread, usually flat, poor stuff, would gain in taste...
...TIME'S error had a small kernel of truth: some of the original Palace, begun by Edward the Confessor (d. 1066), still stands as part of Britain's Houses of Parliament. But most of the Palace was destroyed by fires...
...ratings and 15 ships. No Navy of modern times has equaled the rate of expansion that the Royal Canadian Navy then achieved. Today it has more than 80,000 officers, ratings and Wrens, 250 combat ships, 400 other craft. Its few hundred professional officers are only a tiny kernel. But the amateurs, from city and farm, have done a job that pleases even professional Admiral Nelles...
...edible, but it has never been as popular as white rice because it 1) looks less attractive and 2) keeps less well (the oil it contains becomes rancid). Harwell hunted for a process that would somehow transfer the valuable food elements from the outer coatings to the white kernel, but his pressure cooker experiments were failures...
...called "converted rice") a day, all of it sold to the Army & Navy. In the new process the rough rice is soaked in warm water, undergoes a vacuum treatment, then is put under pressure which transfers the soluble vitamins and minerals from the husks and bran coatings to the kernel. Next a vacuum dryer seals the vitamins in the kernel; then the rice is husked and polished in the usual...