Word: oat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That chop was the beginning, perhaps, of an Economy Congress. Or perhaps it was the fall of a fresh, young, oat-feeling Congress into the trap of a master politician. Franklin Roosevelt certainly did not worry unduly, knowing that in this era of a Permanently Unbalanced Budget, Congress would have a hard time taking his dare to economize generally-on pensions, Social Security, national defense...
...Waucoma, Ia. dentist, claimed to have confirmed the belief that diet and caries are related. Backing their conclusions with a mass of laboratory detail gathered over a period of twelve years, they declared that the cause of caries was not candy but certain "fractions" of wheat, corn and oat products, that these ferment in the mouth, and are transformed by a germ-which they christened Streptococcus odontyliticus (tooth dissolver)- into an acid which attacks tooth enamel...
Britain has yet to find out how much or how little oil she has downstairs, though the first important strike was made at Hardstoft, Derbyshire, in 1919 when oil was discovered about 3,000 ft. below a field of oat stubble. About 100 tons a year have since been produced. Encouraged by this small but steady uninterrupted gush, the Government in 1934 established State ownership of all domestic oil, hoping to make the Navy independent of foreign supplies. Enthusiastic geologists soon began to talk of the possibility of finding oil along a belt stretching from the west coast of Wales...
...Oats, unlike wheat or corn, go to market firmly encased in hulls. The hull is used to make furfural, a chemical resembling formaldehyde. Furfural may also be produced from such things as corncobs, sunflower seeds and old leaves, but oat hulls are available in large quantities at convenient places and the furfural yield is high. Three big uses for furfural are in plastics, in refining lubricating oils, in purification of wood rosin...
While working on the hull, oat millers have also discovered curious outlets for the groats in addition to breakfast food. Oats are good for the skin and tend to preserve other foods. Special oat flour is used in soap, cosmetics, facials, sunburn preparations. Potato chips and nuts dusted with oat flour are supposed to stay fresh longer. Lard containing 5% oat flour keeps better than pure lard. A small amount of oat flour in coffee preserves the aroma. Chief objection to oat flour is that the improvement in the quality of the treated food is not great enough to overcome...