Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important, the new rules clamp down hard on the numerous additives used in mass ice-cream making. FDA approves the continued use of such lump-preventing stabilizers as gelatin, locust-bean gum, sodium alginate, guar-seed gum and extract of Irish peat moss. But it frowns on any further use of alkaline neutralizers, e.g., baking soda, which some producers use to sweeten up sour milk and cream, make it palatable. Totally banned: certain acid emulsifiers that make ice cream smooth by breaking down the barrier between fat and water. While approving chemicals that occur naturally in food, FDA rejected...
...small egg, duck egg, goose egg, guinea egg, robin's egg, pigeon egg, quail egg, small pullet's egg, banty egg; walnut, English walnut, hulled walnut, hull of walnut, pecan acorn, unhulled walnut; grain of corn, few grains of maize, bean, navy bean, pea, lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist...
Synthetic Sod. A new, weed-retarding method of sowing lawns has been developed by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. A green mat of synthetic fibers containing grass seed is unrolled on the soil giving a lawnlike appearance while the grass takes hold and keeping out weeds. It disappears as the lawn grows. Price...
...take to the air (see color pages). Big farmers and ranchers, such as Idaho's R. J. Simplot, who needs three planes to supervise his many farming operations and other interests, are learning that they cannot get along without planes. Using them to patrol fences, herd cattle, seed wheat or spray cotton, U.S. farmers are adding many millions annually to their income. As an invaluable tool of industry and commerce, light planes also add millions more to the U.S. businessman's income...
...Adam, the fool-in-Christ, or just plain fool. Author Hauser has a sharp eye and sure words for the homeliest of scenes, e.g., "an empty clothesline strung with rain pearls." Her novel is best when her people are worst-sparrow-agile before the flung bird seed of gossip, and vulture-ugly as they pick clean the bones of a reputation or a life in whispers...