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Take the plastics industry, for example: the source of airplane frames, tank windows, gas masks, gun stocks, an war goods in general. At present it is limited by lack of methanol and acetone, which, like explosives, are made from starch. But in spite of our "vast and untouched" resources it is the United States and not the Axis which feels the pinch. We have been depending mainly on sugar as the source of the mow scarce starch, gathering only one per cent of the possible yield from corn. An attempt not so long ago to industrialize potato starch was ruined...
Last week, Stockholm reported Adolf Hitler had quit his Berchtesgaden hide away for the Moscow front, there to take personal command and starch the spines of his very weary warriors with an inspiring personal appearance. The obvious question-what can Germany do now?-had its usual gossip-born answers: a German turn to the south in an all-out effort to rid the Mediterranean of British power and avenge the Libyan defeats ; a German move against Turkey; German occupation of Spain, Portugal, an attack against Gibraltar; German assumption of the French Fleet, occupation of Dakar...
...looked back on as little better than superficial when compared with a new method described last week by Cornell's Botanist Lewis Knudson. Using X-rays, Knudson has permanently increased the size of plants' cnloroplasts-the cell's tiny granular bodies where chlorophyll makes sugar and starch out of inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis-most important chemical reaction in the world...
...named on one of Walter Camp's All-Americas, good enough at baseball to get a job after graduation with the New York Yankees. When Babe Ruth moved into the right-field spot Halas had hoped for, Halas moved out, to become athletic director for Staley Starch Products Co. at Decatur...
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...