Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration last week called in an expert food salesman to help move a mountain. The expert: lean-jawed Clarence Francis, 65, who will retire next month as board chairman of General Foods Corp. (Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods, Swans Down cake mixes, etc.). The mountain: the Government's vast and growing stocks of surplus agricultural products, which now total $2.7 billion. Francis took over a White House desk as presidential adviser on surpluses and chairman of a new interdepartmental committee on disposal plans...
...Duluth, the last survivor of some 2,675,000 Union Army veterans, onetime Drummer Boy Albert Woolson, chalked up another year of his sprightly second century, puffed out 107 candles on his birthday cake...
...Harmony. The lesson Father Purcell draws is that worker allegiance is not a cake that company and union divide, with one side's gain being the other side's loss. It is to the interest of both sides, says Father Purcell, to nurture "dual allegiance." The company should accept the union as "a good and even necessary institution." The union should "view the company as a partner, and not as an enemy or a threat...
Heidi (United Artists) is pretty well taken care of in the words of a six-year-old boy who saw the picture. "It got sad in the middle," he said, "but it happiered at the end." The suggestion of a fallen cake, sunk under the weight of its unassimilated sugar, fits Lazar Wechsler's film as well as Johanna Spyri's book (here done in film for the second time), but young children will probably like the one as well as they do the other. Heidi herself is freshly, simply played by Elsbeth Sigmund, and her crusty grandfather...
...batter over nuts spaced evenly over two well-greased, lightly floured 9-in. round layer pans. Sprinkle with grated chocolate. Carefully spread remaining batter on top. Bake in moderate oven (350° F.) 35 to 40 minutes. Cool in pan 10 to 15 minutes; turn out cake and cool thoroughly. Chocolate frosting: combine 2 squares baking chocolate, ½cup granulated sugar and ¼ cup of water in saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth. Remove from heat, add 4 egg yolks and beat thoroughly. Cool. Cream ¼ cup butter or margarine with 1teaspoon vanilla. Blend...