Word: yeasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international yeast was working. Perhaps it had something to do with Yalta's implications for the future...
...lawyer, Chicago's grey-maned, hard-bitten George Haight. Since then, Haight has decided which companies will be licensed to use the Steenbock patents (each pays royalties, averaging 10% and less); how they shall advertise their vitamin products; what fields each could take. Example: Standard Brands could irradiate yeast, but nothing else. In all, the foundation has piled up a fund of $9,000,000. which eventually will go to the university. So far, the university has received $2,500,000. Estimated income this year: $1,600,000. Of this, Dr. Steenbock will collect his usual salary...
...pleasantest ways in which a man of wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter...
...beach: "Get over the effects [of drinking] as quickly as possible. Take plenty of fluids, a good diet and give yourself three yeast tablets three times...
Between 1928 and 1930, a Russian scientist named B. Tokin noticed that "a paste prepared from a small amount of macerated onion, garlic or other allied plant immediately emits volatile substances which are lethal to yeast cultures," frogs' eggs, protozoa (one-celled animals which live in water), etc. Two years ago Drs. Toroptsev and Filatova began grinding up fresh onions and garlic to see whether the smell would do any good to infected wounds of rabbits...