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...price paid for corn normally represents 60% of the production costs of Corn Products Refining Co. (corn starch, Karo corn syrup. Mazola oil, corn derivatives). With 1934 corn prices substantially higher than last year's, it reported half-year profits of only $4,402,000 against $5,188,000 for the first half...
Inulin is a carbohydrate which diabetics may eat. It occurs in artichokes, dahlia bulbs, elecampanes. But it is far less plentiful in foodstuffs than the appetizing starch of potatoes. If potatoes only contained inulin...
...supply of the bacteria which turns the juices of artichokes into inulin. They placed the organisms in small tubes and sealed the tubes securely to the stems of potato plants. The germs seeped into the potato plant, went to work on the juices and in a few days produced starch-free, inulin-rich potatoes. Although the experiments were successful in only a limited number of cases. Professors Hibbert and Suit last week cheerfully foresaw "the possibilities of obtaining a variety of other new types capable of serving as special foodstuffs...
...fact that dinitrophenol burns sugar and starch in healthy animals suggests that it should be good for diabetics, who do not handle their sugar and starch properly. But, strangely, diabetic dogs were easily poisoned by dinitrophenol...
...great billposting concerns, which appreciate that advertising which arouses strong criticism is bad business. . . . The Society has long been gravely concerned by the increasing disfigurement of picturesque country villages and small towns by advertisements of various proprietary articles: tea, cocoa, tobacco, cigarettes, soap, starch, poultry food, dog biscuits and, er- what not, displayed promiscuously on shops and other premises where they are sold. The Society has been endeavoring to find a way of controlling such advertisements without abolishing them, and the Home Office has now sanctioned a new model form of exemption. ... Its general effect is to allow a tradesman...