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Famine into Feast? With considerable effort, the Carnegie Institution harvested about 100 Ibs. of this foodstuff, enough for testing its food value. Its report does not claim that it will be easy to grow algae on a really large scale. One possible way to overcome some of the difficulties: developing new strains of algae that will grow efficiently under factory conditions, including higher temperatures. But even without improvements, the Carnegiemen believe that their pilot plant can produce 17.5 tons of dry algae per acre per year. Soybeans, which contain less protein than algae do, average only...
...Everything possible will be done to alleviate the "foodstuff, clothing and housing" situation. But the nation must be ready for "anguish . . . suffering ... life of stoicism." (The Welfare Ministry launched a drive to popularize a new bread made of "waste starch, acorns, pigweed, clover leaves, potato vines...
...western railroads they will also be swamped with orders for tens of thousands of cars to move what seems likely to be the greatest wheat harvest on record; 2) he will be robbed of additional tens of thousands of cars that will be sent east with relief shipments of foodstuff for Europe; 3) if shipping is not immediately available, West Coast ports may not be able to unload freight as fast as the railroads will be able to deliver...
...like it here. We have a cow which is part Brown Swiss, a sow soon to farrow, and chickens. Every year we can between 400 and 500 quarts of foodstuff - if we have several extra chickens we 'pop' them into cans. Perhaps you have heard of Wendell Willkie. He is a friendly man. Some time ago the Salvation Army captain asked my husband to collect some salvage at the home of Mrs. Wilk, mother-in-law of Willkie. That evening my husband rang the doorbell. Mr. Willkie answered it. He is very friendly. He was visiting there...
...down the U.S. last week spread a fantastic rumor: bread, the one foodstuff of which the harassed U.S. consumer had every reason to expect an abundance, may soon be scarce. Despite elevators glutted with a two-year supply of wheat, Kansas Senator Clyde M. Reed warned that the nation may expect a bread shortage in 30 to 60 days...