Word: ida
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ida, the Boise affiliate of H.J. Heinz Co., they peela lotta potatoes -- about 6,000 tons a day. Traditional recipe: steam 900 lbs. of potatoes in a vast vat; release the steam so the skins drop off. Preparation time: two minutes. Drawbacks: you lose nearly a tenth of a tater with the skin and generate a dun-colored, viscous by-product, used as cattle feed...
...potatoes as they fly through a funnel at the rate of 1,800 a minute. This laser surgery for spuds, designed by researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, works even better on tomatoes, a key commodity for catsup-making Heinz, which owns the still experimental technology. Ore-Ida won't update its recipe for peeling potatoes until the price of lasers, already declining, drops even more. Any commercial use of laser peeling is at least three to five years away. But even this state-of-the-art technology has got to be viewed as a godsend to the soldier...
From prostitute to professor and playwright, from country child to civil rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...
From prostitute to professor and playwright, from country child to civil rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...
...having everyone "know his place." These facts are so overarching that we tend to take them for granted, but they are inherently more dramatic than the domestic squabbles and psychological revelations at the heart of most U.S. theater. It is the daring, and impressively achieved, ambition of Endesha Ida Mae Holland to make this arc of change the subject of a single play and to illuminate it all in the more-or-less true story of one black woman: herself...