Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ardsley-on-Hudson, N.Y. with his wife, two children and "the biggest dog in the world" (a 180-lb. Newfoundland), has one consuming pastime that well fits his gentle nature if not his size (6 ft., 175 Ibs.). As often as he can, he plays his own complicated brand of croquet. Says he: "Golf and bowling require no brains at all. Croquet is a game of skill and brains-forgotten in all these years...
...first seamless steel tubing ever manufactured in Latin America rolled from a brand-new $20 million plant built just outside São Paulo by Brazil's seven fast-rising millionaire Jafet brothers (TIME, Jan. 26, 1953). When the plant is running at top capacity, its output should save Brazil from $20 to $25 million annually in dollar exchange...
...methods of food manufacture, paralleled in the discoveries of other famous cheeses, have long been a challenge to modern scientific planners. At a meeting of the Illinois Dairy Products Association in Chicago, Professor Samuel T. Coulter, of the University of Minnesota's division of dairy husbandry, announced a brand new species of American cheese, sterile-fresh from the laboratory. Its name: nuworld cheese, "the first new cheese," according to Professor Coulter, "in modern times...
...opening match against Belgium's Philippe Washer, the U.S.'s Tony Trabert showed the Aussies a fine brand of tennis, won his match in straight sets. Against Belgium's No. 2 player, Jacques Brichant, the U.S.'s Vic Seixas showed nothing but sloppy tennis and a bad case of jitters, beat himself badly in four sets. With the matches even at one apiece, Captain Talbert, a diabetic 35-year-old not even ranked in the U.S.'s first ten, made a bold decision. He withdrew Seixas from the doubles match and substituted himself. Teamed with...
...will turn out only 45,000 cases this year, and Sutler wonders if even all of that number can be sold. He alone figures to lose $450,000, and the others-Pacific American Fisheries, Libby-McNeil & Libby, A.& P.'s Nakat Packing Corp., Del Monte Brand's Alaska Packers Association-have all been hit hard. The industry expects to lose close to $15 million. To top it all off, the Federal Trade Commission last month accused 43 packers and eleven labor unions of conspiring to fix prices. FTC also charged that negotiation of raw-fish prices between...