Word: gelatine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Timed-release decongestant medicines contain hundreds of small but visible pellets of gelatin-or wax-coated drugs in a single dose. The period required for each pellet to dissolve in the digestive system and release its drug varies from almost no time at all to as long as twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...
Borden's has diversified most widely in foods. In the 1950s, it moved eagerly into convenience foods, putting the Borden label on new products (gelatin salads, packaged potatoes, refrigerated biscuits) and acquiring such smaller firms as Snow's (clams), Wyler's (dehydrated soups and vegetables). Brandywine (mushrooms) and ReaLemon (juices and concentrates). It is now the nation's fifth largest food company. To cut costs, it is building 14 to 18 automated warehouses to replace its 136 small warehouses around the U.S.. has so automated its plants that one man and three machines...
...Gelatin & Diaper. For breakfast Chimp No. 65 got an ounce of baby cereal, 4 oz. of condensed milk, cooking oil, gelatin, vitamins and half an egg. Then he was wired for recording instruments, dressed in a baby diaper and strapped on his back on a personally fitted contour couch, his arms left free. The environmental control system (air pressure, oxygen, temperature, etc.) was much the same as for a human astronaut...
Three black mice named Moe, Sally and Amy were installed in a heavily shielded model of the U.S. man-in-space capsule last week, along with liberal rations of oxygen, oatmeal, peanuts and gelatin and a variety of scientific instruments. Then the capsule itself was placed in the nose cone of an Atlas missile at Cape Canaveral, and the missile lofted 650 miles into space and down the Atlantic toward Ascension Island at speeds reaching 18,000 m.p.h. During the ride, the mice rode into the perilous inner Van Allen radiation belt and were also treated to ten minutes...
nervous pudding-gelatin dessert...