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...continuous brewing plant at Fort Worth that makes beer by assembly-line process instead of in single vats; other beer executives are watching to see if the process accounts for sizable labor saving. Coors Co. of Colorado is developing a vertical process in which it grows its own grain, makes its own cans and adds the beer on a fast production line. Another new possibility being studied: concentrated beer. Concentrates could be brewed in a central plant, shipped at much lower transportation cost to branches for reconstitution with water...
Benefit & Bane. Even more dramatic are the contributions fungi have made to science and medicine. Yeasts' high content of vitamins makes them effective against beriberi and pellagra. Ergot, derived from fungus-infected grain, speeds labor in childbirth, helps control bleeding. A common red bread mold has vastly facilitated research on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which governs heredity and holds the secret of life...
...have gone under, as have two respected Wall Street brokerage houses and one subsidiary of American Express Co. Embarrassed bankers from London to San Francisco have been taken for many millions. So have De Angelis' customers, notably the Isbrandtsen Shipping Line, and such worldwide commodities dealers as Continental Grain Co. and the Bunge Corp...
...dealers: Tino's biggest customer, Buenos Aires-based Bunge Corp., claims $18 million from American Express Warehousing. Another customer, Continental Grain, claims $5,600,000 from the same American Express subsidiary...
Declines & Disappointments. The Communists try to swap their raw commodities for sophisticated capitalist technology, but recently they have been forced by crop failures to import fewer Western machines and more Western food. For both Russia and Communist China the biggest import from the West is grain. China now takes more than 50% of Australia's wheat exports and 10% of Canada's; last week it agreed to buy about another $100 million worth of grain from Canada. Most of the U.S.'s $340 million worth of exports to the East last year was in the form...