In the 1930s, the local refinery sponsored the McPherson Globe Refiners basketball team ( AAU ).

The Refiners ' portion of the team took the court to defeat Canada 19-8 in the Gold Medal game Aug. 14, 1936 at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Hollywood Universal narrowly beat the refiners at Madison Square Garden and the USA team was composed of both Universal and Refiners players and one college student.

Reaction to Vilsack's nomination from agricultural groups was largely positive and included endorsements from the Corn Refiners Association, the National Grain and Feed Association, the National Farmers Union, the American Farm Bureau Federation, and the Environmental Defense Fund.

The Refiners were best known for their tall centers, Joe Fortenberry ( 6-8 ) and Willard Schmidt ( 6-9 ) and their fast-break style of play.

Billed as " The Tallest Team in the World " the Refiners often kept their opponents to low scores because of the centers ' ability to deflect shots on the way to the basket in what today would be called Goaltending.

The Refiners ' home court is now the McPherson Community Building at 121 East Marlin and can be toured by contacting the local Convention and Visitors Bureau.

A mural in honor of the Refiners was completed in 2010 at the intersection of Kansas and Ash, south of their home court in preparation for the 75th anniversary celebration of their victory in 2011.

The local high school still gives homage to its past, as its students are known as the Sunburst Refiners who coincidentally lose many a highschool sports game.

The town was originally called Parco, after the Producers & Refiners Corporation ( or PARCO ) which founded the refinery and the company town.

The purchase of Prairie also gave Sinclair a 65 % interest in Producers and Refiners Corporation ( or Parco ), which Sinclair subsequently acquired when Parco entered receivership in 1934.

Surviving industrial uses today on the western side of the peninsula, between the river and the A102 Blackwall Tunnel southern approach road, include Alcatel, the recently closed ( September 2009 ) Tunnel Refiners glucose plant ( until about 2008 part of Tate & Lyle ), and two large marine aggregate terminals on the Delta Metals and Victoria Deep Water Terminal sites.

As described by the US Corn Refiners Association, harvested kernels of maize are cleaned and then steeped in water at a temperature of for 30 to 40 hours.

In 2010, Imperial contributed its aging nineteenth-century Gramercy, Louisiana refinery to Louisiana Sugar Refiners, LLC ( LSR ) in exchange for a one-third interest in the new company.

Refiners ’ profits are tied directly to the spread, or difference, between the price of crude oil and the prices of refined products.

* National Petroleum Refiners Assn.

A peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition by John S White ( a consultant in sweeteners, HFCS, and sucrose for the Food and Beverage Industry who also has a professional association with the Corn Refiners Association ) rejects the HFCS-obesity hypothesis and finds that " lthough examples of pure fructose causing metabolic upset at high concentrations abound, especially when fed as the sole carbohydrate source, there is no evidence that the common fructose-glucose sweeteners do the same.

In 2010 the Corn Refiners Association applied to allow HFCS to be renamed ' corn sugar ', but was rejected by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2012.

He won the NCAA and AAU 120-yard and 220-yard hurdles in both 1946 and 1947 and he tied world records in both events with a 22. 3 in the 220 in 1946 and a 13. 6 in the 120.

Jarvis, an AAU champion in the 100 y, was among the pre-race favourites for the 100 m at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, but the hot favourite was American Arthur Duffey, who won the British Championships just prior to the Games.

Morrow won the 1955 AAU 100 yard title.

Morrow won the sprint double in the national college championships and defended his AAU title.

Ritola never competed in the Finnish Nationals, but won a handful of medals in the AAU Championships in United States.

In 1971 he suffered his worst defeat, placing 10th at the AAU Mr. America, which was won by Casey Viator.

He was the first African-American AAU Mr. America ,( Harold Poole was the first African American to win the 1964 IFBB Mr. America ) but also the oldest winner, at age 43, of the IFBB Mr. Olympia contest, which he won in 1982.

When the officials thought he had won the race, Lorz played along with his practical joke until he was found out shortly after the medal ceremony and was banned for a year by the AAU for this stunt, later winning the 1905 Boston Marathon.

He never won a national championship in either jump, but he was the 1897 and 1903 AAU champion in the all-around, an event similar to the decathlon.

McLendon had several of his star players from Tennessee State such as John Barnhill and Ben Warley, plus several former Akron Wingfoots, such as Johnny Cox and Jimmy Darrow, who had won the AAU National Championship the year before.

As an amateur, Palomino won the 1972 National AAU Light Welterweight Champion at 137 lb., defeating eventual Olympic gold medalist Ray Seales.

During that time Brown was selected for the 1964 Summer Olympics team, on which he played on and with which he won a gold medal, while also leading the Wingfoots to the 1964 AAU National Championship.

Then he was successful again at the Mr. Illinois in 1964 but he lost in 1965 at the AAU Jr. Mr. America winning 2nd place even though he won the trophy for " Most Muscular ".

In 1966, he won the AAU Jr. Mr. America and again he claimed the trophy for " Most Muscular ".

In 1905, Lightbody won AAU titles in both the 800 and 1500 metres, and the following year he competed in his second Olympics, the Intercalated Games of 1906 in Athens.

In 1918, he had already won the AAU championships in the high hurdles, and in 1920, he set a new world record in the 110 m hurdles, running 14. 4.

The following year, he equaled his own world record, and won the AAU, IC4A and NCAA championships.

Although McGuire's running career was short, she won six AAU titles, in three different events.

Cornell wrestlers have won eight individual national titles, and in 1947, the wrestling team won the NCAA Division I and AAU national championships.

He also won 11 gold medals in AAU national meets between 1939 and 1948.

In the same year, he won the AAU Championship in the 400 m dash with a time of 51. 4.

In 1969, he finished second to Ryun in the NCAA indoor mile, then won the NCAA and AAU outdoor mile championships by turning the tables on Ryun and beating him.

She won the AAU championships in that event 5 times ( 1924 – 28, 1931 ).