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Like a dose of spring tonic, the arrival of Ethel Barrymore in "The Corn Is Green" brings new zest to the Boston theatre season. This combination of fine acting with a rather good play stands out as one of the few worthwhile productions of a year marked by mediocrity. The appearance of Miss Barrymore is naturally the most outstanding feature of the presentation and her acting is treat enough for all of us who have rarely seen acting of the "Grande Dame" type...
...children and of still rankled grownups-got bad news last week. They had hoped that the Battle of the Pacific had cut them off for a long time from Java-grown tapioca. But the Department of Agriculture last week announced an understudy for tapioca, a new type of waxy corn developed by their plant breeders. Much relieved were industries which use tapioca for glue, and the Post Office Department, which uses it as a stamp adhesive...
...starting point for a new industry in a 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...
...Iowa State College, who point out that molds instead of malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol yield per bushel of corn was about 2.8 gallons with the mold-bran compared to 2.5 gallons with malt." Mold-fermentation of 100,000,000 bushels of corn or wheat would give about 25,000,000 more gallons of alcohol...
Some help may come from lumber dealers, who have devised handy, prefabricated farm storage bins. And CCC may transfer from Iowa corn country some 17,000 steel bins used to store excess corn surpluses. (Big demand for hogs and alcohol have emptied these corn bins, which hold...