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...bread molds instead of the conventional malt* to convert starches to sugars, which are then fermented by yeasts. So reported Leland A. Underkofler, Ellis I. Fulmer and Lu Cheng Hao of Iowa State College, who point out that molds instead of malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol yield per bushel of corn was about 2.8 gallons with the mold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: J. Barleycorn at War | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...century and a half during which the West enjoyed certain powers in the Orient, the professor went on, the only real superiority that it possessed was one of techniques in manufacturing communication, war machinery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steiger, Visiting Lecturer, Scores Belittling of Japanese as Dangerous | 4/23/1942 | See Source »

...almost unbelievably different. Already the people might look almost defiantly into the mild skies where the foreign bombers had been expected. Glorious had been Japan's victories. Instead of being attacked from the air, Japan was driving the rich, vain, intolerable British and Americans from the Orient. The New Asia was coming to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blossom Time | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

News of Maryknollers in the Orient has shrunk to a trickle since Dec. 7. But cables received early this month reported that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic Heroes | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...that the U.S. is cut off from the Orient, no missionaries can be sent there from Maryknoll this year. Instead, the Vatican has assigned the society a new missionary field among the pagan Indians in the forests of northern Bolivia, east of the Andes. Three missionaries will leave Maryknoll for the upper Amazon region on Easter Day; 17 more will follow after the June ordinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic Heroes | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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