Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the West Coast catch will still end up as fish meal, at least for the time being. A company called Pacific Protein Inc. is spending $1,000,000 to build a processing plant at Aberdeen, Wash., for that purpose. Pacific Protein President John Stevens would like eventually to use hake in making fish-protein concentrate, an almost tasteless powder of reputedly wondrous nutritional value. A half ounce of FPC, as it is called, is said to be capable of providing a child with his daily need for animal protein at a fraction of a cent...
When most people think about a population studies center, they imagine gloomy Malthusian statistics and birth control pills. When Roger Revelle, director of the Harvard Center For Population Studies, thinks about population, he worries about getting more protein to India, reducing child mortality, and using the energy of the Aswan Dam to cut the birth rate in Egypt...
...ocean, will be even more radically transformed. Rand experts visualize fish herded and raised in offshore pens as cattle are today. Huge fields of kelp and other kinds of seaweed will be tended by undersea "farmers"-frogmen who will live for months at a time in submerged bunkhouses. The protein-rich underseas crop will probably be ground up to produce a dull-tasting cereal that eventually, however, could be regenerated chemically to taste like anything from steak to bourbon. This will provide at least a partial answer to the doomsayers who worry about the prospect of starvation for a burgeoning...
...develop their own agricultural economies." In addition, to meet "unprecedented demands arising out of drought and the war in Asia," Johnson announced a 10% increase in rice acreage in 1966, and said that corn-belt farmers would be encouraged to switch some feed-grain acreage to soybeans, a high-protein oilseed of which the U.S. has virtually no reserve stocks...
Strength & Insulation. One of his remarkable pictures clearly shows that protein molecules eventually used by the developing plant are rearranged during anabiosis into physiologically inactive crystals-a structure that scientists had suspected but never observed. Other photographs reveal the protective shift of tiny sacs of fluid called vacuoles, which are distributed through the cytoplasm of a young, active cell. During anabiosis, they line up in rows against the inner cell wall, probably to strengthen and insulate it against long periods of heat or cold, and to facilitate the rapid absorption of water when it becomes available...