Word: butter
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Until then there are still a few debased dollars to be made. Among the preparedness-minded entrepreneurs on hand is Dennis Anderson of Chicago, who represents Long-Life Foods' line of dehydrated applesauce granules and powdered peanut butter. "I don't own any guns and hand grenades, but I believe in having a year's supply of food." Jack Elkins, a nuclear-weapons physicist from Oak Ridge, Term., got so fired up at the June festival that he went home and invented a home oil refinery. It is about the size of a 55-gal. oil drum...
...twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...trouble is that record breaking seems to be having the opposite effect for Carter. Come to think about it, that presidential compulsion may have helped to do in Johnson (more education bills, more health programs, more guns and more butter), and Nixon (best organized, first to tape all office conversations, most beyond...
...week. On the first day of publication in February 1923, Larsen wrote with euphoria and some apprehension to his father: "I am really afraid to go on record as saying TIME has arrived, but the newsboys swear it has and it's their bread and butter." Larsen hired three debutante friends to help him mail the first issues; with amiable incompetence they sent three copies of the magazine to some subscribers and none to many others. For a time there was no desk space for Larsen in the magazine's Manhattan office, so he worked...
Howard Johnson grew out of a notions and ice cream shop founded with borrowed money in Quincy, Mass., in 1925 by Howard D. Johnson, the present chairman's father, who died seven years ago at 75. The business prospered largely on the strength of its butter-rich, multiflavored ice cream (calorie count: 160 for a rounded scoop of chocolate chip). Eager to expand but unable to raise much cash during the Depression, Johnson in the early 1930s became a pioneer in the practice of franchising (though today the company owns some 75% of its restaurants). Later the firm plunged...