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...Italian, Commendatore Antonio Ferretti, improved the process, which was promptly commandeered by Mussolini as one way of combatting sanctions. Snia Viscosa is now turning out almost 10,000,000 pounds of lanital a year. Having practically the same chemical composition as wool, it is made by mixing acid with skim milk. This extracts the casein, which looks like pot cheese. Evaporated to crystals, it is pulverized and dissolved into a molasses consistency, then forced through spinnerets like macaroni, passed through a hardening chemical bath, cut into fibres of any desired length. From 100 pounds of skim milk come 3.7 pounds...
...Skim milk residue is suitable for cattle fodder...
Seattle householders were plagued and puzzled by a thief who opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed...
...house in 1847. Four years later membership had jumped to 205 (peak membership: 300), and the world was cocking an eye at these scandalous "free lovers" who called their goings-on "stirpiculture." Within the Community, eugenically weak males struck at the favoritism shown their betters, got a skim-milk ruling that they could father one child. The favored, select, few "stirps" took the cream. Work was planned collectively, law & order in the same way. Noting the failure of similar groups throughout the country, to make ends meet by straight farming, Noyes and his shrewd, God-fearing colleagues turned to canning...
...turn, stood off the challenge of Roman Soldier in the stretch, finished a length and a half in front. Roman Soldier closed strongly, four lengths ahead of Whiskolo who ran second to him in the Texas Derby. Nellie Flag, favorite when an intermittent drizzle started to put a skim of mud on the track, ran fourth. Other favored horses-Today, who bruised a heel day before the race; Boxthorn, who had a sentimental following; Plat Eye, who tired after a mile-were far back in the field...