NCAUR and its three sister labs in Louisiana, California, and Pennsylvania. They were all built during the Depression to devise new ways of putting surplus crops to good use, and their accomplishments are both impressive and eclectic. They’ve created frozen concentrated orange juice, lactose-free milk, dehydrated potato flakes, biodegradable plastics, and a silicone emulsion that preserves antique books. Peoria, specifically, came up with the idea of using infrared lamps to make french fries crispy, designed an ingenious method of cleaning Navy warplanes by air blasting them with ground
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