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...Many gastropod and pelecypod molluscs feed on phytoplankton or larger aquatic plants and in those possessing a crystalline style the only strong extracellular digestion is of starch, as mussels, clams, and oysters...
...once the prima ballerinas of industry, are less in demand; calls for engineers two months ago dropped to their lowest point in more than three years. Many technicians, moreover, are leery about the uncertainties of defense work and sometimes will take pay cuts in return for steadier employment. "A starch manufacturer," says Bob Snelling, "wouldn't have half the trouble getting a microbiologist or a chemist that a defense contractor would...
...reduced. So is the flow of blood through intestines and kidneys-everywhere except in the brain, lungs and heart. Even in active swimming, the extremities can get along for a while on stored oxygen, then switch over to using the muscles' store of glycogen, a fuel form of starch that the body can "burn" without oxygen. The brain-lungs-heart assembly gets all the available blood...
...months in a fluid world, "breathing" through its mother's blood, then is catapulted into an air-breathing world. Dr. L. Stanley James, of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, has tested newborn babies' blood. It contains chemicals showing that muscles were burning up starch and turning it into lactic acid during birth. If a birth takes unusually long, the concentration of lactic acid increases; it is a measure of how severely the baby's life has been threatened by oxygen starvation...
...Express Co. could face heavy losses because it operates warehouse facilities in which missing oil was supposedly stored, and issued receipts for it. Also locked into commodity deals with Allied that stand to cost them money were Chicago's Walter E. Heller & Co., A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co. (starch), Isbrandtsen & Co., and 13 other firms...