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...Chris Craft, the General Motors of the powerboat industry, now finds that 70% of its customers who want 28-ft. yachts and more also want and are willing to pay for a whole galaxy of luxury accessories. Among them: refrigerator-freezer, $1,250; four-burner stove with oven and broiler, $365; deluxe hot-water system with mixer faucets and spray hose, $1,210; electrically pumped shower, $450; automatic pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Plug-In Boats | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...labor costs ($3.57 an hour for male cutters, $2.91 for women wrappers) and for the increased cost of handling, cutting and wrapping, which amounts to 90 a Ib. Moreover, many housewives no longer will buy cheap cuts of meat, preferring to buy steaks that they can throw on the broiler rather than a 590-per-lb. portion of stew meat that needs to be cooked most of the day. Since there are fewer prime cuts, the demand tends to drive up the price, and keep it high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Beefs About Beef | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...years on the tour he won only nine tournaments. As he got older, it began to look as if he might not win another. His shoulders ached from bursitis; tendon trouble swelled his fingers until they looked, someone said, "like sausages left too long on the broiler." To top it off, somebody swiped his favorite eleven-year-old putter in Augusta last April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Old Pro | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...about home and family, pinching the waitresses as they arrive. Slowly the tempo of preparation rises. Cleavers whack, pots rattle, steam billows up. Jokes and insults fly like salt and pepper; the chef gives the back of his nasty old tongue to a cook caught pilfering a pullet; the broiler man tips a pot of boiling water off a rack and-YEEEOOOWWW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pressure Cooker | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...take advantage of such computer-like efficiency requires a high degree of automation and integration by the broiler men who buy the breeding stock. In Gainesville, Ga., Jesse Jewell, Inc. operates what it believes is the largest integrated chicken business in the world (TIME, Jan. 14, 1952). Buying Vantress roosters and hens from a New Hampshire breeder, Jewell hatches the eggs, sends the chicks out to 270 contract farmers in a 55-mile radius. The chicken houses are so thoroughly automated that one farmer can look after two houses, each containing 18,000 chickens. The feeding is entirely automatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Pushbutton Cornucopia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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