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...talk of shortages, grim calculations. Hopes were stirred by such performances as that of the soybean industry, a recent problem child of chemurgy, which now crushes ten million bushels of beans monthly, expects a crop of 175 million bushels in 1943 and the export of a billion pounds of soy flour and grits under Lend-Lease...
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...
Radio fans two winters ago were astounded to hear a ballplayer guest-starring on Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
...Soy Beans Set Pace for Chicago Grains," headlined the New York Times one day last week, marking another new high for the most fantastic legume since Jack & the beanstalk. In 1917 the U.S. produced only 1,000,000 bushels of soybeans, in 1923 only 6,541,000; but last week crop experts foresaw a harvested soybean crop of 110,000,000 bushels-plus perhaps as much again that will be plowed under as fertilizer, used as pasturage, cured as hay or stored as silage. Next year the U.S. may well overtake Manchukuo...
Akin to the feelings of the persecuted early Christians when Constantine suddenly announced his conversion was the feeling of Mexico's long-harassed Roman Catholics when President-elect General Manuel Avila Camacho proclaimed several weeks ago: Soy creyente ("I am a believer...