Word: foil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been searching for ways to beat the electronic rap. With misguided ingenuity, hot-rodders packed hub caps with uranium ore or loaded them with steel balls; they sprayed the fan blades with aluminum paint, dangled static chains from rear bumpers, festooned their radio aerials with strips of aluminum foil. But nothing seemed to foil highway radar, and latter-day Barney Oldfields continued to be hauled in like herring in a net, whining "Unfair...
...foil, the classic Harvard deficiency, that the varsity took its lumps. Although Dan kirsh did well in winning two of his three bouts, no one else could win any, as Cornell ran up a 7-2 margin...
...Foil & Freeze. Since he dropped out of high school to begin working in bakeries, Lubin has never strayed far from the oven door. In 1935 he and his brother-in-law raised $1,500 to buy three little retail bakeries in Chicago. Sixteen years later, with a chain expanded to seven stores and a hot-selling cream-cheese cake named Sara Lee (after his daughter), Lubin decided to set up shop as a wholesale baker. By developing the technique of baking his cakes in an aluminum foil pan. then freezing and shipping them in the same container, he soon...
...nation's biggest commercial user of cream cheese, fresh bananas and butter, which Lubin fanatically insists must always be 93-score AA-the best grade produced. Pumped or carted from huge storage areas, these ingredients are squeezed and squirted into an endless line of aluminum foil pans that winds through an oven at the rate of 2,400 an hour and finally out to the shipping room. But Lubin's goal in automating is not the usual one of saving labor costs; instead it is to build the undeviating accuracy of machines into the quality of his cakes...
...epee man will be Jon Reckler, Peter Plazza, Nick Spitzer, and Dave McCloskey, and the outcome of the match may well depend on them. Pete Busch, Dave Kirsch, and Fred Boersma comprise the foil segment...