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...California firm, Imported Fine Products, is distributing Buisman's Coffee Extender, a century-old Dutch concoction of caramel and calcium phosphate, at $4 to $5 per Ib.; two tablespoons of Buisman's, long used in schools and hospitals, will double the yield of a pound of coffee. Another caramel-based extender, Coffee STRETCH, now being sold in 1,000 Denver-area grocery stores, is selling fast at about 69e for a half-ounce packet. It too boosts the yield of a can of coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coffee Breaks | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

Best hope for the future: resistant varieties. Siberian elms are not killed by Dutch elm disease-which probably indicates that the fungus came originally from Asia. The Buisman elm of The Netherlands is resistant also. The Department is already experimenting with fungus-defying hybrids. Perhaps, in a century, there will be an elm renaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight of the Elms | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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