Word: salt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan would not soon be likely to get the 25% of her rice supply which normally came from abroad, and the domestic crop was 8% below normal. Steel production was 20% of normal, machine tools 70%, chemicals 20%, textiles 15%, electricity 30%. There was little salt, and the general public could expect no leather shoes before 1946. Meanwhile they would wear wooden get a (clogs). The country had lost 11 million of its 14 million prewar cotton spindles but could still supply domestic textile needs if it had 5 million piculs (1,300,000 U.S. bales) of cotton. The total...
Your Science section [TIME, Sept. 3] records as "other inventions announced last week" the invention by one Nick Engel of Wisconsin, of "pre-salted celery" produced by treating soil with 1,000 lbs. of salt per acre before planting...
...your information, Utah's "self-salted" celery was announced by wire services on Oct. 16, 1942. It is grown without artificial salting, in the valley where the recession of prehistoric Lake Bonneville to what is now known as the Great Salt Lake deposited natural salts in the land, leaving .4 of i% of salts, more than is permissible for many crops. Nick's experiment simulated Utah soil, but he failed to import Utah climate, which provides for the growth of Utah's huge stalks of crisp, white, stringless sweetheart celery...
STEPHEN J. MOLONEY Salt Lake City, Utah
Going His Way. In Salt Lake City, Motorist Keith Perry's suitcase was stolen but he set out for Ogden anyway, picked up two hitchhikers, drove them - and his suitcase - to the Ogden police station...