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...fears were realized. From half-fed, unheated Madrid came word that 40,000 inhabitants of that city of siege were suffering from pellagra, caused by malnutrition, which results in mouth and skin inflammations. Common in the U. S. South, where there is often a restricted diet of salt pork, corn meal and molasses, pellagra is caused by a lack of those vitamins found in fresh meat, milk and vegetables...
...Cast Iron Soil Pipe Association. Each of these complaints has charged violation both of the Robinson-Patman Act, forbidding price discrimination between customers, and of FTC rulings, forbidding price conspiracy between companies. Last week, for the first time, acting solely under the Robinson-Patman Act, FTC challenged gigantic Corn Products Refining Co.'s basing-point price setup, gave No. 1 U. S. producer of syrups and starch 20 days to file an answer...
...used plenty of fertilizer, rotated his corn, beans, grass crops, grew seed corn under-contract for a wholesale firm, bought a $1,075 tractor on the installment plan to help his two mules and five horses. By the time he was graduated from high school last year, with a four-year average of 92½%, Hunter Roy and the prospering Greenlaw farm were models for miles around. Last week the Future Farmers of America, of which Hunter is one of 173,000 members, convened in Kansas City, Mo. under the auspices of the Kansas City Star to confer their coveted...
...Belding, a Waucoma, Ia. dentist, claimed to have confirmed the belief that diet and caries are related. Backing their conclusions with a mass of laboratory detail gathered over a period of twelve years, they declared that the cause of caries was not candy but certain "fractions" of wheat, corn and oat products, that these ferment in the mouth, and are transformed by a germ-which they christened Streptococcus odontyliticus (tooth dissolver)- into an acid which attacks tooth enamel...
Observed the old corn growing older...