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...year-old farm laborer in the Scilly Isles, scattering oat seeds where tulips once grew, last week spoke for Britain: "We planted corn like this in the Bible 'way long before they thought of flowers on the islands. It's good to be doing it again...
...Invitation. General Mills got into war work half by choice, half by invitation. The first war orders came naturally-dried eggs for Lend-Lease, precooked breakfast food and vitamin preparations for the Army, oat flour for paratroopers' basic rations. Then General Mills thought of its small, efficient manufacturing division (food-packaging machinery, milling equipment), decided to get a few machine-made orders. The first job was making plungers for ammunition hoists. Then General Mills got a prism order, ran it off in record time by perfecting a device to grind 54 prisms simultaneously. With this greyhound start, the company...
Errol Flynn's wild oat (TIME, Oct. 26) may flower into a greater popularity than he has ever known. While Los Angeles justice pondered the case of Cinemactor Flynn (charged with statutory rape), the verdict of the cinemasses was warm, spontaneous and ribald. An audience that crowded San Francisco's Fox Theater to see Flynn's Desperate Journey had the time of its life...
Triumphantly the New York Daily News made capital of curtailment on deliveries. In nearly two pages of text and pictures it gloated over newly acquired horses and wagons ("seventy oat-burners and their equipage, rubberless and gasless from nose to tail-board"). The News has frequently growsed about the ineptitudes of rubber and gas rationing. But last week the horse-&-buggy News was almost good humored. Said Driver John Pisano: "A newspaper delivery horse learns the turns and stops, and the driver just pitches the bundles...
Since then the "chemurgic movement" has gathered headway with soybeans for plastics and automobile enamels; casein (from milk) for fabrics and plastics; tung oil for paints; Southern slash pine and yellow pine for newsprint; furfural (for plastics, oil refining, wood resin processing) from oat hulls; anti-freeze fluids and fuel alcohol from cull potatoes; cotton for binding material in roads, pecan shells for charcoal. So far, however, chemurgy has not much helped the mass of U. S. farmers, as Congress' election-year fondling of bedeviled agriculture well shows...