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...wife lay In a double bed, and she looked desperately weary. But the sheets on the bed were clean. There was a white cloth on the table and flowers in the window, and the baby thrashed around happily in a clean pink woolen suit. There was an electric cooker-"The food from the kitchens has become a great deal worse recently," the mother said-and the clothes were hung neatly in the closet...
...nearly 200 manufacturers. Among the biggest are Rowe (cigarets), Du Grenier (cigarets and candy), Mills (unrelated to Bert E.) Novelty (Coca-Cola and familiar "one-arm-bandit gambling machines") and Automatic Canteen (snacks). The industry has lately attracted such companies as Bell Aircraft (coin changer) and General Electric (hotdog cooker...
...rough-lumber worktable at which Dr. Schlumbohm, 50, a large (225 lbs.), hearty man with a bellowing laugh, has worked out 1,000 inventions. Last week he was fondling two newborn brain children: the Tubadipdrip, a combination coffeemaker-teamaker and cocktail mixer, and the Tempot, a combination fireless cooker-ice cream freezer-frozen food locker-foot bath-thermos chest-dishwasher-air conditioner and bachelor's chef. They will probably make their way without trouble in the commercial world, just like Dr. Schlumbohm's (rhymes with slum bum) other oddly named gadgets. Some of them...
...electric range, with built-in pressure cooker, broiler, toaster, etc., each with electronic temperature control...
...never been as popular as white rice because it 1) looks less attractive and 2) keeps less well (the oil it contains becomes rancid). Harwell hunted for a process that would somehow transfer the valuable food elements from the outer coatings to the white kernel, but his pressure cooker experiments were failures...