Word: sorghums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, most of the 21 buildings in Corn Products' $20 million sorghum processing plant, which was getting into full production last week, have no walls; some have no roofs either. Typical are the millhouse and the "steep house," in which grain is placed in large wooden tanks for treatment in a dilute sulphuric acid solution. The sea breeze keeps the steep house clear of choking sulphur fumes. The breeze also sweeps clean the floor under the silo conveyor belt, usually a collection spot for explosive dust...
...miles to fill his bag with books to bring back to his pupils. "I went with [them] to cornhuskings, apple-peelings, bean stringings, square dances, and to the belling of the bride when there was a wedding . . . I never missed a party at the mill when they made sorghum molasses ... I went to all the churches ... I went to parties where we played post office and where we danced Skip to my Lou . . . There was somewhere to go every night...
This week, Midwest celebrates its third anniversary with a 1948 prospect of a new $1,000,000 laboratory building and a $600,000 appropriation for research. Most of this will be spent in developing agricultural products that might create new industries. The Institute's work on sorghum as a source for dextrose and starches has already paid that kind of a dividend. Its new processes will help Corn Products Refining Co. refine some 6,000,000 bushels of sorghum a year in a projected $16,000,000 plant at Corpus Christi...
Sometimes the unfinished dikes break, and Todd and his engineers rush in thousands of coolies for emergency repairs. Recently they plugged a break by pouring in the only material handy, 130,000,000 Ibs. of kaoliang (sorghum), sacrificing today's food for the hope of tomorrow's. A few days later bandits dynamited a stone quarry and kidnaped ten workers; the bandits had been hired by a contractor whose theory was : why spoil a good thing by finishing...
Governor Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma got a letter from a New York City woman who said it had been 29 years since she tasted sorghum molasses. She now wanted the name of somebody who would sell her half a gallon. The Governor announced to the press that it so happened, by George, that he was going to New York this week and he would personally deliver an entire gallon...