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Botanist Knudson suspects that the bigger its chloroplasts, the bigger is a plant's power to synthesize food for its own growth-and for the nourishment of man and beast. So Knudson's colleagues are eagerly planning to adapt his method to develop more productive strains of corn, wheat, clover, other crops...
...Corn Is Green (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). The warm story of the education of a talented Welsh miner, with Ethel Barrymore playing teacher...
...Food is so inadequate that every disease is influenced by malnutrition. The average diet in North China rarely includes meat, consists of yellow corn and millet flour, sometimes mixed with soybean flour, and sesame or peanut oil. People who have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North...
Forty-four million cases of canned tomatoes; 42 million cases of canned peas; 14 million cases of canned snap beans; 25 million cases of canned corn. Probabilities were that figures would be revised upwards when new Russian Ambassador Litvinoff arrives in Washington with a full report of Russian requirements...
...them in his dining room, made parts for outboard motors which he sold commercially. (That is how the Cleveland Pump people heard about him.) His wife "is more at home in a machine shop than in a kitchen," can do any job in the shop. She also pops the corn with which Homer feeds his own hobby: crickets. He keeps several hundred around the shop, singing in time with the power lathes...