Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missing Millions. As nearly as worried U.S. exporters could piece together the increasingly vague official figures, the amount of imports moved closer to the amount of exports. But Colombia's reserves, ominously, did not reflect the improvement; instead they dropped to a thin-ice $91 million, while the backlog kept growing...
...winters ago when trading furs in the wilds of Labrador: Why did the fish and meats that he quick-froze taste better when thawed out than the same foods slow-frozen? The curious Yankee cut thin slices of the frozen food and found the answer: quick-freezing prevented large ice crystals from forming, thus kept the food cells intact and firm; slower-freezing in milder temperatures created big ice crystals that ruptured the food cells, producing a pulpy, tasteless mass. $7 Investment. Six years later in Gloucester, Mass., curiosity turned to opportunity as Birdseye went into the wholesale fish business...
...sent President Giovanni Buitoni back to Italy to set up a frozen-food industry. The 129-year-old, world wide Buitoni organization started freezing lasagne, ravioli, macaroni and cheese in the U.S. in 1950, did so well it decided to market them to Italian housewives, using Italy's ice-cream dealers as outlets...
Water in the Bag. At 8:45 a.m. on Aug. 1, attendants wheeled Hickey into an operating room at NIH. The anesthesiologists knocked him out with sodium pentothal, then put him in a double-jacketed plastic bag up to his neck. Through the bag they circulated ice water. When Hickey was chilled enough so that circulation could be almost stopped without fear of damage to his brain, the surgeons opened both his aorta and his heart. Through a slit in the aorta they slipped the stem of the tee-shaped gadget, then worked this down into the heart wall until...
...emblem of self-sufficiency.) But since the two central figures of each play differ so in personality, both expositions of the problem are interesting and seem to have a wide and general significance. In the first play, Margaret Leighton plays a sexually-repressed model, statuesque and "cut out of ice"; in the other she is again sexually repressed, but this time as the whimpering invalid daughter of a domineering mother. Eric Portman is in both cases sexually frustrated, but his first example is that of a hard-drinking, warmly honest journalist would-be politician, while in the second play...