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...Chicago Board of Trade, the star performer for weeks has been the versatile soybean, the eighth most valuable U.S. farm crop. Since the first of the year, Europe's freeze, which ruined the olive-oil crop, has sent the oily soy soaring nearly $1 a bushel to the season's high of $3.42 per bushel. While other farm commodities did poorly, the soy did nip-ups for happy speculators: exports from Oct. 1 to March 31 rose nearly 1,000%, compared with the same period a year ago, while domestic producers crushed the beans at a record rate...
...grazed on its 20 acres of range, with perhaps some casual supplementary grain feeding. The modern cattleman, however, views his animal as a factory-like converter of carbohydrates into a protein food. Depending on weather and range, he may feed the beef a daily ration of two pounds of soy or cottonseed cake, fortified by molasses for energy, bonemeal for calcium, plus iodized salt and vitamins A and D. Antibiotics are added to increase the rate of gain and disease resistance; Stilbestrol, a female hormone preparation, helps to make the animal gentler and beefier...
This is but a sample menu, to give the beginner confidence in ordering a basic meal. Each new Chinesegoer will want to expeliment for himself, educating his tastes to include steamed fish, abalone, and squid. With chopsticks firmly clutched, and the soy sauce at hand, anyone can rapidly acquire a professional veneer, and the process is both easy and pleasant...
Ordinarily a blooming lotus merits no such rapt attention from Professor Ohga, who has been studying the genus for 30 years and is known in Japan as "Dr. Lotus." But this plant, lovingly tended by the doctor's good friend, 69-year-old Soy Saucemaker Moemon Ihara, had sprouted from a seed found in a nearby peat bog, imbedded in a neolithic canoe. Counting on 100 years to form each foot of the 15 feet of peat that covered the seed, and adding 500 years for the layer of topsoil above the peat, Dr. Lotus calculated that his seed...
...earth-floored barracks, and the rest live in tents. About 8,000 P.W.s are harbored in each compound, about twice as crowded as they should be. They sleep on straw mats, and each man has two blankets. They are fed three times a day-rice, beans, fish, pepper mash, soy sauce. This is a nourishing, 2,800-calorie diet, on which many prisoners have gained weight...