Word: soybeanization
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Last week Humberto Ortega had other matters to deal with. He announced that Sandinista infantrymen had shot down a single-engine Cessna plane and captured $ an American "mercenary," James Denby, 57, a pilot who divides his time between a corn and soybean farm in Carlinville, Ill., and a ranch in Costa Rica. Two days before the incident, Denby had requested permission to fly over Nicaragua to reach Costa Rica. The Sandinistas charged that Denby was on an espionage mission for the contras. But it appeared that if it came down to comparing the propaganda value of a Denby with that...
Those clouds, though, could not dampen the 1987 harvest. Despite all the idle farmland, wheat production was up 1% from last year's sizable crop, to 2.1 billion bu., while the soybean crop also rose 1%, to 2 billion bu. Good weather resulted in especially strong yields in Iowa, which vaulted past Illinois to become the top producer of corn and soybeans...
...instance, to anyone with a flair for chemistry, understanding the meanings of most terms found on the outside of commercially-packaged food or health-care products pose little problem. Partially hydrogenated soybean oil is simply oil extracted from soybeans, which contains several double-bonded carbon atoms per molecule, that has been reacted with hydrogen and a catalyst. This process breaks some of the double bonds, enabling a few more of the carbon atoms to accept electrons from the hydrogen. Partial or complete hydrogenation is performed to make a substance remain solid at higher temperatures...
...later, from the area between the Hi-Lo Oil gas station up to the grain bin itself and can only be seen coming toward Fostoria. The bin is the one farthest west." In later editions the paper corrected itself and identified the canvas, if you will, as a soybean-oil storage tank...
...what of Rita Ratchen these days? "I see it as a natural phenomenon," she said over coffee the other morning in the LK Restaurant down the road from the soybean tank. As she spoke, a waitress came over with a tally sheet from the home office, showing that the establishment's volume since Jesus was sighted has moved it from 53rd place in a 55-restaurant chain to third place. "It is caused by the lights and the rust," Rita went on, "but I believe the Lord permitted it to happen. Just as I believe the Lord permits things...