Word: cookers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sponsor is a Houston rice broker named Gordon L. Harwell. A born pot-watcher, Harwell used to sit up late nights with a pressure cooker and a potful of paddy (rice in the husk) trying to cook up an improvement on conventional milling methods. In orthodox rice milling, machines first remove the husk (containing vitamin Bi), then the germ and several coats of bran (rich in fat, minerals and vitamin B complex), finally give forth a polished white kernel which has lost most of the vitamins and minerals in the original rough grain. (The husks are burned; the bran...
...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...
...trek up Mt. McKinley was made for the testing of sleeping bags, tents, stoves, skis, and snowshoes. If a man was uncomfortable in a sleeping bag at 24 degrees below, if a pressure cooker exploded, observations were noted and the information was radioed to Washington
...were cooking something in boiling water and wanted to hurry, you should (a) increase the heat so the water would boil more rapidly, (b) put a cover on the pot (c) pour off some water, (d) use an airtight cooker...
...home. Workmen on the next shift were already swarming around a second, identical craft perched on the ways. Paddy O'Laughlin, swearing lustily, pressed another buzzer. Down to the river slid the second ship. Chortled tough, wiry Mr. O'Laughlin, who started his career as a rivet "cooker," rose to become general superintendent of the Dravo yards: "I'm so happy I feel like going home and beating up my wife...