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...mealtime now: we have rice and gravy in a flat pan, dry bread and a 'big town cake'; we lack eating and drinking utensils. Water comes from a faucet and goes into a hole...
...envelope. What computers did for clerks was to eliminate the menial paper shuffling, permitting people to spend their energies on more creative and profitable work. It could well be that computers are propelling the U.S. toward an era when the American worker can have his cake and eat it too: the material rewards of mass-produced abundance and the satisfaction that comes from performing an intricate and responsible...
...water, differs in formula depending on whether it is being used to lubricate a drill bit, float rock chips out of the way of the bit, or seal a shaft against blast. To plug a well, "weighted mud" of powdered clay and barium sulfates mixed to the consistency of cake batter is used...
...begin working in bakeries, Lubin has never strayed far from the oven door. In 1935 he and his brother-in-law raised $1,500 to buy three little retail bakeries in Chicago. Sixteen years later, with a chain expanded to seven stores and a hot-selling cream-cheese cake named Sara Lee (after his daughter), Lubin decided to set up shop as a wholesale baker. By developing the technique of baking his cakes in an aluminum foil pan. then freezing and shipping them in the same container, he soon had a national business...
...prove his own point, Andy's anniversary speech, at a midnight cake-cutting upstairs, was delivered in French-for nearly all of the 500 celebrators who gathered round him were Frenchmen. Downstairs, in the room where Gershwin wrote, 30-odd Americans sat around drinking and talking politics...