Word: starch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kleberg thinks Americans can tighten their belts to help feed the world, because: "We eat too much anyway, especially bread. If necessary we can eat more potatoes, rice or other types of starch, to save wheat. At any rate, we should waste less." But he does not think that renewed controls would increase the food supply, because "you don't get more food by restrictions." In the present atmosphere of uncertainty of what the Government intends to do about meat, cattlemen cannot plan ahead. "It takes four years to make a steer," said Kleberg. "That requires some long-range...
...since 1931, they have patiently traced the body's step-by-step transformation of carbohydrates and sugars into substances in blood and tissue. Their Nobel Prize was for discovering and synthesizing a complicated enzyme (an enzyme is a biological catalyst) that begins the process of converting glycogen (animal starch) into sugar in the body...
Lesson No. 2. Some Australians had thought that last December's steamy, 100° Melbourne weather would melt the starch right out of the challenging U.S. Davis Cup stars, Kramer & Schroeder. The starch oozed out of the Australians instead. They lost five straight matches (and the cup). But instead of acting crushed, the Australians got a gleam in their eye. Sir Norman Brookes, boss of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association and onetime Wimbledon champion, issued a communiqué: "The aggressive type of tennis played by your men should have a great influence on our future stars...
...Starch. Sedoi's sentimental ballads and starchy marching songs first began to catch on ten years ago. His big break was Nightingale, which won him his first Stalin prize (1944). Now he rates special fees, living and working quarters...
...Research Foundation went to Austrian-born Dr. Carl Cori of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis. Pale, tall Dr. Cori, 51, specializes in sugar, the basic fuel of human metabolism. For 20 years he has traced the progress of sugar through the body, watched it turn into glycogen (animal starch), measured how much glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver...