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Word: flours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jewel has been quietly test marketing the new line for almost ten months, but officially announced the program only last month. Jewel, along with its 59-store affiliate, the Star Market chain in the Boston area, now offers as many as 88 no-brand products ranging from flour to laundry detergent. To keep prices at rock bottom, Jewel and Star will spend nothing on advertising or promoting the no-brand goods. They also use the simplest packaging (no cellophane windows or four-color lithographs on boxes) and limit variety and size (generally the packages are fairly large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No-Brand Groceries | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...McGeary, who filed on the America's Cup races for our SPORT story written by Associate Editor Frederic Golden, had only one previous run-in with sailing. While in the Peace Corps in Panama, she sailed with San Blas Indians in a wooden dugout canoe equipped with a flour-sack sail. Arriving in Newport not knowing a boom from a bilge pump, she quickly picked up enough expertise to follow the final trials. Says McGeary: "I decided to pass up the chance to sail in the America's Cup press regatta scheduled for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 19, 1977 | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Alarms over these fiber-poor diets began sounding almost a decade ago. In 1969, Surgeon-Captain Thomas Cleave of Britain's Royal Navy wrote a scathing indictment blaming the increased consumption of sugar and other refined carbohydrates (like bleached flour) for a host of diseases, from diabetes and diverticulosis to varicose veins and possibly colon cancer. British Surgeon Denis P. Burkitt followed with a recommendation for dwellers in developed countries to increase their fiber consumption toward the almost 1 oz. per day consumed by Africans he studied. Some eminent nutritionists have protested that the Britons' claims were gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diet with Fiber | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

Bring to a boil, remove from stove and add: 2 cups flour, ½ tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. baking soda sifted together. Beat to mix well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1977 | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...door slammed, and it was Reed Camfort, his roommate. Camfort strode purposely into the room, his L.L. Bean hiking boots crushing errant tablets into flour, grinding them into the carpet, leaving white spots. He walked over to the stereo, picked out a disk, set it down on the turntable and flipped switched. "The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard" flowed through the air. Reed had put the stylus down on "Mama Tried." The volume was set on seven...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Any last words, buddy? | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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