Word: sawdust
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...German chemist, Friedrich Bergius, detailed a process for converting "wood waste, such as sawdust, into virtually unlimited supplies of synthetic food products containing all the fundmental elements of nutrition...
Perhaps the most remarkable announcement was that of the German professor, Friedrich Bergius, who claimed to have developed a means for converting sawdust into food. Across two columns atop its front page on September 12, 1936, The Times reported the following...
...scientist revealed that the German Government had been conducting "extensive tests over a period of two years" which "have proven that the food value of the raw sugar (obtained from the sawdust) is equivalent to that of barley." The substance so obtained, he added, could be stored for a long time...
...wrong, for this is pig racing, run on an 85-ft. sawdust oval track, and the porkers do not dawdle: the swiftest swine cross the finish line in 5 or 6 sec. In his best Kentucky Derby style, Holding calls the race: "Pigmalion's first out of the box, with the lead on the rail. Hamtrak settles into second, with Flying Frank third." Suddenly his voice rises excitedly: "Here comes Boaris Karloff on the outside, closing fast around the final turn!" Holding is drowned out by the shouts of the crowd as the pack pounds down the stretch...
...still. Anyone who believes that TV has made the "hot" Gospel hell-raisers obsolete has not seen one of Swaggart's sweating, mike-toting, Bible-waving, Devil-thrashing performances. "Muhammad is dead but Jesus is alive," he intones. "He's alive. He's alive! GLORY!" He loves the sawdust trail and conducts a road-show crusade about once a month. "It has its own charm, spontaneity and electrifying power," he says. "There's really nothing in the world quite like it. It's like the Republican or the Democratic Convention every night...