Word: starch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baly records some curious experiments. In his laboratory in 1928 he achieved the photosynthesis of formaldehyde, glucose, starch, other organic compounds in a test-tube solution of carbon dioxide. As a catalyst he used nickel carbonate instead of chlorophyll (which no chemist has yet got to work outside the veins of plants). But neither Baly nor any other chemist, using identical methods, has ever succeeded in repeating the experiment...
...limited degree, animals have the power, hitherto believed unique in plants, of making starch and sugar foods out of carbon dioxide and water. This startling news was announced last week in Chicago by Harvard Biochemist Albert Baird Hastings, Birgit Vennesland and co-workers at a meeting of the American Societies for Experimental Biology...
...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia emitted an angry Donald Duck squawk. Subject: U. S. draft boards. "The trouble with the administration of the draft in New York City," quacked the Little Flower, "isn't in Washington. It's in the laundry. I think someone is using too much starch in the shirts of the administration...
...woman had hives only when she was in bed. On testing, she was found allergic to corn. To an allergy specialist, the answer was obvious, for laundry starch is often made from corn. When the patient began sleeping on unstarched sheets, her troubles were over...
...Peeling potatoes, to modern housewives, is a sin. Potato jackets, they firmly believe, are rich in anti-scurvy Vitamin C, while the potato's inside is little more than starch and water. Last month the British Medical Journal laughed at this assertion, referred to some new research of a food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin...