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Word: climateproof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...converting protein into edible form is the common cow. But in many tropical areas, where protein starvation is most acute, cows are scarce and do not thrive. Last week, in London's industrial East End, British Inventor Israel Harris Chayen of British Glues & Chemicals, Ltd. proudly displayed a climateproof mechanical cow. Chewing its cud with the rumble of a bomber squadron, the 50-ft. machine briskly chomped up vegetable matter at one end, spewed out at the other edible, nutritious protein in the form of a flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mechanical Cow | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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