Word: foodstuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolanos had reportedly made a lot of money out of the severe corn shortage caused by Central America's spring drought. Back in January, it appeared, Insider Bolanos found out that the government, worried about drought forecasts, planned to lift import duties on corn, Guatemala's basic foodstuff. With a Mexican and two Guatemalans as partners, he set up Comercial Guatemalteca to import corn from Mexico. What with import duties suspended and corn retailing for as much as 15? a lb. (normal price: about 5?), it was a highly profitable venture, though merchants who bought corn from Bolanos...
...that he had tried to commit suicide in his cell. Last week, 19 months after his arrest, the East German news agency, A.D.N., announced that Dr. Karl Hamann had been sentenced to ten years' hard labor in a Communist prison. The charges: having "systematically sabotaged the supply of foodstuff for the population...
Painter John Decker may score in Fowler's book for his good cooking, but on the day I visited his studio he had an open can of some foodstuff . . . the blue and white label read "Fix FOR HUMAN USE." It was issued by the WPA. The dark walls of Decker's depressing menage were covered with "brown-sauce" paintings-one of which was Queen Victoria with a W. C. Fields head [see cut]. Another, after Da Vinci, had Fanny Brice's face...
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...