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With the cost of brown gold hovering above $4 per Ib. and sales beginning to fall off, producers are hustling a variety of substitutes, additives and extenders to take the sting out of coffee prices. General Foods, the biggest U.S. coffee roaster (Maxwell House, Yuban, Sanka) is test marketing a new brand, called Mellow Roast, that is a combination of coffee and other ingredients -46% wheat, bran and molasses in the instant. Mellow Roast ads not only stress low price (about $2.90 for 8 oz. of instant) but also maintain that the additives yield "a delicious coffee taste without...
...California firm, Imported Fine Products, is distributing Buisman's Coffee Extender, a century-old Dutch concoction of caramel and calcium phosphate, at $4 to $5 per Ib.; two tablespoons of Buisman's, long used in schools and hospitals, will double the yield of a pound of coffee. Another caramel-based extender, Coffee STRETCH, now being sold in 1,000 Denver-area grocery stores, is selling fast at about 69e for a half-ounce packet. It too boosts the yield of a can of coffee...
...coffee altogether, are showing new interest in old substitutes such as Postum, the all-grain brew invented by C.W. Post in 1895 to cure "coffee nerves." Locally marketed versions, like Grandpa Knight's Cafe-Grano, an all-grain roast sold in the Cincinnati-Dayton area for $1.89 per Ib., are also in demand as replacements...
...like Americans-the people, as opposed to the government, a traditional socialist distinction. But Americans are especially bienvenidos now: Cuba's economy is in wretched shape. The major cause is the plunge in the world price of sugar, Cuba's chief export, from more than 50? per Ib. in late 1974 to just 7? today. The Russians are now spending nearly $4 million a day to keep Castro's economy sputtering along; that does not include military aid, estimated at $200,000 a day. Moscow also supplies almost all of Cuba's oil needs at bargain...
...into the regional playoffs on the basis of percentage only, not according to who you beat during the season. We've got to win as many as we can," he said. COLUMBIA AB R H BI Brown, r.f. 3 1 2 0 Bauld, s.s. 3 1 0 0 Murphy, Ib 4 0 0 0 Wilhite, c.f. 4 0 2 2 Backus, 3b 4 1 1 1 Purcell, 2b 4 0 0 0 McAvoy, I.f. 3 0 0 0 Ramirez, d.h. 4 0 1 0 Pacico, c. 3 0 0 0 HARVARD AB R H BI Singleton...