Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rancidity Preventive. Now that they have learned how to prevent it, chemists revealed that bacon, potato chips, cakes, candy and similar foods become rancid if wrapped in ordinary transparent cellulose sheets. Cause: ultraviolet light which reaches the food through the transparent wrapper. Cure: tinting cellulose wrapping paper with a faint yellow dye which obstructs ultraviolet light...
After trying 224 chemicals, Dr. Frank Earl Denny discovered that potatoes treated with ethylene chlorohydrin vapor flung up 2-ft. vines and began to bear before untreated potatoes showed above ground. Now Southern potato growers using this medication on hardy plants from the North can collect two crops a year...
Samuel Rufus Rosoff was born in Minsk, Russia, 53 years ago. Aged u, he worked his way to the U. S. as a potato-peeler on an immigrant ship. A tough, dirty little boy who had never been inside a school, he sold newspapers, slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money...
...estimated at $50,000,000. Active law practice held him not many years after that. In 1911 he bought 1,000 acres in the Berkshires near Williamstown, Mass., called the place Mount Hope, has spent much of his time there ever since. He became a world authority on potato growing, experimented with corn from South America, bees, poultry, finally and most importantly with cattle. Able to converse fluently in Latin, he made his three children learn to speak it, and visitors occasionally heard the tots deliver bulletins on the day's egg output in the sonorous language of Cicero...
...Warren proposal is modeled on the cotton and tobacco restriction acts: a quota for every state and every grower, a penalty tax of ½? to ¾? per Ib. But the circumstances attending potato control are not simple. Potatoes do not have to go to a gin like cotton, nor are they bought by a few big buyers like tobacco. So collection of the tax and enforcement of quotas will be difficult. It will be more difficult because there are an estimated 3,000,000 potato growers who raise an average of less than an acre of potatoes each. Enforcement...