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...good luck charm is my family and they're all in the audience right now!" beamed Miss Illinois, throwing a high-intensity smile at the camera and giving her silky-as-corn-flax mane a confident toss over her naked left shoulder...
Business at Steve's has doubled as well, according to ice cream maker Tom J. Lemere. He said that Lehze Flax '89, who "scooped alone for two hours yesterday, was "going crazy" because her co-worker hadn't shown up for work. "I'd like to help her, but we're almost out of ice cream," he said...
...industry where "you live and die by your image," Flax says, a name like Harvard "certainly can't hurt...
Oddly, what first spurred U.S. interest in Helianthus was the emergence in the 1960s of latex-base paints. This undermined the market for paints based on linseed oil, which is made from flax. Companies that processed flaxseed had to find another oil to keep their machinery busy. Cargill Inc., the huge Minneapolis grain dealer, in 1966 dispatched a researcher to get some sunflower seeds from the Soviet Union, which is the leading producer. At the same time, Cargill and rival Honeymead Products set out to persuade farmers to try the new crop. That was not easy; the companies...
...volunteers grew peas, beans, buckwheat and flax, and raised chickens, goats, pigs and cattle. They kept bees in wicker hives for their honey, and traded pottery and baby goats to the film crew for rations of salt and butter. Food storage was a constant problem. At times, the group had to eat maggoty meat and cope with invasions of rats...