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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...
...About 107,000,000 tons of feed grains (corn, oats, barley, sorghum), 14% below last year but 7% above average...
prison, is the cultivation of 21,000 acres of rich alluvial land by 2,125 Negro and 425 white prisoners. Last year Parchman Farms fattened 3,000 head of swine, ran a big dairy herd, sold cotton, tomatoes, beans, Irish potatoes, sorghum and soy beans. This year, with farm prices rising, production of feeds and foodstuffs will...