Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cape Cod turnip raiser, wanted the rates on this commodity hoisted from 12 to 50¢ to shut out Canadian importations. Georgia's Crisp begged for better treatment of peanuts in the next tariff act. Maine's Hersey grew damp-eyed as he told of the plight of the potato producers in his State...
...seemed to be two comical elements connected with the prize which the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver received last fortnight from the American Association for the Advancement of Science-"for the most important contribution to the study of tuberculosis during the last 10 years." One was a potato, an ordinary Irish tuber; the other the petiteness of the honorarium...
...potato was more significant than the money. After biologists had fooled around with the tuberculosis bacillus for almost 50 years, they had developed two standard methods of discovering the bacilli in sputum. One was to stain a smear with dyes and search for the germs with a microscope. That was crude and inaccurate. The other was to inject suspected sputum into guinea pigs, creatures unusually susceptible to tuberculosis. That was slow and expensive. A quicker, surer method of diagnosis was needed...
...mediums on which bacteria grow. And eventually they found that sulphuric or hydrochloric acid would best dissolve the elements of the sputum undesirable in isolating the tuberculosis bacteria, that crystal violet dye best brought out the shape of the germs, that they flourished best on a chunk of potato. Now practically every tuberculosis hunter uses their test...
...silk, rubber, cocoa, not yet harvested) permits the producer and buyer to protect himself against unforeseen crop disasters. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange offers this hedging-by-speculation privilege in butter and eggs only. Last week its members considered new commodity admissions-other milk products, vegetables, fruits, canned foods. Cheesemakers, potato and apple growers, canners would, they argued, enjoy the financial protection against plant and animal scourges. Chicago commodity brokers would, obviously, enjoy increased commissions...