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...broker. Because it seems that most of the girls in the Follies would be passed up by practically every broker in New York before Mr. Ziegfield has glorified them. And Dorothy says that about all Mr. Ziegfield does to glorify them is to get them to give up starch in lingeray...
Corn Products Refining Co. ("Argo" and "Duryea" starch, "Karo" corn syrup, "Mazola" salad & cooking oil)-$11,905,289. Previous year...
...newspaper which profits from quack-advertisements. Presumably, enough whiskey continues available in the U. S. to gamble that a good percentage of newspaper readers would "fall" for a cure. Such cure Dr. J. W. Haines, of Cincinnati, offered to provide in his powders. They contain milk sugar, starch, capsicum (pepper) and a minute amount of ipecac-a useless and fake dope against alcoholism, declares the American Medical Association...
...Basically, he decided, he was a converter of grain. Grain was the unique feature of his business. The problem was: What could his factories, equipment and men make out of grain? They could and do make "Bevo," near beer, ginger ale, root beer, malt extracts, food tonics, grape drinks, starch, glucose, syrups; live stock and poultry foods from the grain residues; yeast, which is rapidly becoming an important product. His wagon works he re-arranged so that it could make motor truck and bus bodies. His cabinet workers who used to make bar fixtures were idle. He set them...
Rubber. An international group of researchers agreed that synthetic rubber is not yet. The report of Dr. Richard Weilfi of Germany was most significant: during the War, Germany needed rubber badly, tried many formulas including one that starts from starch. Potatoes and corn were too scarce for food to permit using this one. Another formula, in coal and lime, was followed to produce 2,350 tons of synthetic rubber. But the product cost five dollars a pound; automobile tires made of it wore out after 1,500 miles; for inner tubes it was useless...