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Most important, the new rules clamp down hard on the numerous additives used in mass ice-cream making. FDA approves the continued use of such lump-preventing stabilizers as gelatin, locust-bean gum, sodium alginate, guar-seed gum and extract of Irish peat moss. But it frowns on any further use of alkaline neutralizers, e.g., baking soda, which some producers use to sweeten up sour milk and cream, make it palatable. Totally banned: certain acid emulsifiers that make ice cream smooth by breaking down the barrier between fat and water. While approving chemicals that occur naturally in food, FDA rejected...
Tunisia's supplies of anti-locust insecticide exhausted,-Premier Habib Bourguiba called on the U.S. for help. Next day the first of twelve U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars from France flew in with chemicals and spraying equipment picked up in Morocco. As the pungent odor of Hexachlorocyclohexane spread across the land, the invasion was brought partially under control, but an estimated 70% of Tunisia's $8,500,000 date crop had disappeared. For the Tunisians, the locust scourge was one more portent that nothing will be right in North Africa until the Algerian war is over...
...their titles suggest, the novels are a queer quartet: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), A Cool Million (1934), and The Day of the Locust (1939). During his lifetime...
Tomtomfoolery. From Horatio Alger, Satirist West moved on to Hollywood, where he had worked as a script writer. Apart from the usual film-colony grotesques, The Day of the Locust parades witless cowboys, actors, emotional cripples, dwarfs and a memorably mindless, chrome-pated sexpot. It ends in madness and violence, like the others-a mob at a Hollywood premiere tramples an artist, who is carried offstage screaming...
...STERLING E. CATHEY Locust Valley...