Word: starched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bushel daily limit, and so did the price of wheat, oats and soybeans. Though the trading frenzy subsided along with prices at week's end, the blight lifted the price of May corn futures by 240 per bushel last week, to $1.63. Wholesalers marked up the price of starch by 12% and corn syrup...
...biggest impact of the corn blight lies in the future. Country banks, equipment dealers, and others who have made loans to corn farmers, may be unable to collect. Businessmen in small towns will suffer. The retail price of starch and corn syrup-products derived from the 15% of the corn crop not used for feed-will rise almost immediately; corn oil probably will not because it competes directly with cotton and soybean oil. The five-month supply of corn held by the Commodity Credit Corp. should also help limit price rises...
...Starch and Humor. So off she went last week on the second of her grassroots excursions. This time the itinerary was Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Colorado and Missouri. In style, Pat has suffered in comparison with Jackie; for energy and charm, she has been no match for Lady Bird. But last week she borrowed a presidential 707; her predecessors never did that. Pat held four stand-up press conferences, sharing the microphones with students active in volunteer programs and responding to questions with the proper combination of starch and good humor; Jackie and Lady Bird did not do that either...
...What is it? "A pasteurized blend of water, hydrogenated vegetable oil, sugar, starch, sodium-phosphate, derivatives of mono-and diglycerides, sodium caseinate, polyoxyethylene (20), sorbitan tristearate. salt, cellulose gum, calcium chloride, vanilla and artificial flavor. Charged with nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide." It goes well with pumpkin pie. Answer: a dessert topping. Makes you wonder, doesn...
EASY RIDER. A major movie on an old theme-youth searching for where it's at. The props are familiar-drugs and motorcycles-but Director Dennis Hopper (who also co-stars with Peter Fonda) puts starch in what has become worn material. Though self-pity gets more footage than it deserves, a brilliant performance by Newcomer Jack Nicholson, plus the use of hard-core Americans playing themselves, makes the youths' odyssey Homeric indeed...