Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biggest hit of the National Home Builders convention in Chicago was the "Coffee Butler," a self-cleaning automatic coffeemaker that, at the touch of a button, brews and serves a cup of hot, fresh coffee in a matter of seconds. Produced by the Havajava Manufacturing Corp. of Glendale, Calif., makers of coin-operated coffee machines, the Butler operates like something in a Rube Goldberg dream...
...hopper is loaded with two pounds of regular grind. When the button is pressed, a dispenser drops nine grams of coffee into a stainless-steel brewing cup. An immersion coil heats water to 210°. The water is then fed into the brewing cup, mixes with the coffee, then drains out into a second brewing cup below that contains the moist grounds from the last cup that was made. Finally, the coffee drains on through a spout into the user's cup...
...this takes about seven seconds. After that, the lower brewing cup dumps its grounds down a chute into the household sewerage drain, is swished clean by a jet of hot water, then swings up and around to the top, while the brewing cup containing the freshly used grounds swings down to take its place. The double brewing action, says Havajava President George C. Lane, provides good coffee flavor. "We've found there is no difference in the taste even when the grounds have been in the cup for 48 hours. If you haven't made a cup...
...cling to the maze of tariffs, quotas, and domestic farm subsidies that proliferated in lean postwar years to discourage imports, now hurt their own consumers as well as African, Asian and Latin American producers. Ranging from a West German levy that boosts the price of coffee to 35? a cup in restaurants, to the Common Market's exorbitant duties on cocoa, such restrictions actually work against the West's financial and technical aid to many underdeveloped nations, which need to expand exports to pay interest (up to 7%) on development loans. Duty-free admission for all tropical products...
...being careful that it does not boil. He then stores the product, which is called black oil and looks like axle grease, in old mayonnaise jars. When he is ready to paint, he mixes each pigment he is using with black oil on the palette. Then in a palette cup he stirs up another mixture of (one teaspoon each) mastic varnish and black oil, and a few drops of stand oil and Venice turpentine. At work, he dips his brush first into the mixture in the palette cup and then into the mixture on the palette. Why all this trouble...