Word: starching
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...fish concentrates, are being made imperishable enough to be shipped to any part of the world. But even if all the world were to live on such stuff exclusively, they would never make a dent in the 135 billion tons of carbon (equivalent to 350 billion tons of starch) that is fixed every year in the fertile fields...
...breakfast instead of rice, but are now returning to rice, claiming that bread did not fill them. Tokyo's black-market rice prices are almost double last year's. Alarmed, the ministry announced plans to speed up home production of artificial rice, a compound of wheat, starch and 10% natural rice. The Minister of Agriculture's wife said that she had secretly fed her husband artificial rice for two months, and "he never knew the difference...
Amino Blend. Chemistic food, says Rosin, is only a matter of time and effort. Margarine (chemically hardened vegetable oil) is already partly synthetic. It will be simple for chemists to manufacture food fats out of synthetic glycerin and paraffins from petroleum. Starch will be more difficult because plants produce it cheaply, but Rosin is confident that synthetic starch can be made out of carbon monoxide acted upon by sunlight...
...Kate's first movie, A Bill of Divorcement, she played John Barrymore's daughter. Barrymore soon took some of the starch out of her by inviting Kate to his dressing room and trying to seduce her. Kate retreated across the room, quavering: "There must be some mistake!" Barrymore grimly agreed and showed her the door. That nonsense over, they became friends. Kate remembers him warmly: "He never criticized me. He just shoved me into what I ought to do before the camera. He taught me all that could be poured into one greenhorn in that short time...
...subject breathes into a tube connected with the machine. Alcohol in his breath reacts with a mixture of iodine and oxygen to yield free iodine. Photo-electric measurements of the intensity of a beam of light passed through the free iodine in a starch solution record the alcoholic content on a dial...