Word: yeasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when the shortage of alcohol is acute" was announced last week by Fordham's Frederick F. Nord before the American Chemical Society. Nord's starting point: his discovery that pentose, a sugar which is plentiful in corn and wood but has hitherto resisted fermentation by yeast enzymes, can be attacked and broken down by other enzymes secreted by certain fungi grown on mineral foodstuffs. The fungi reduce pentose to a heavy syrup (pyruvic acid) easily converted to ethyl alcohol...
Texas researchers last year found that royal jelly, the substance secreted and fed to the queen bees by the workers, is two and a half to six times richer in pantothenic acid-a vitamin of the B complex-than yeast or liver. Hambleton believes that pollen will prove to have a similar content, may soon become a major source of vitamin extracts...
Still another great yeast cake of dissension were India's 60,000,000 Untouchables (peoples of the lowest caste), whose chief political spokesman was Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. He distrusted Congress ambitions, since they would lead to Hindu majority Governments which might sustain caste discrimination...
...three months, Hawaii thirsted under absolute prohibition. Parched citizens concocted sickening "swipes" of yeast and fruit juice. Last week the order was relaxed. Adult topers may buy one quart of liquor a week. Bars sell all they like-until they close at 5 p.m. But drunkenness is sternly forbidden. Penalty: a fine up to $500, five years in jail; or both. Bartenders are also punished for getting their customers drunk. On Hawaii's first day of repeal, 17 men, five women were convicted of drunkenness. They were fined up to the limit, sentenced to jail for as long...
...Bright James S. Adams, 44, was elected president of Standard Brands (Fleischmann's Yeast, Chase & Sanborn coffee). A flyer in World War I, he was for six years an adman (Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...