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...KILLING GERMS. The ability to heat also gives microwaves the power to kill microorganisms. Litton Industries Biologist Carl M. Olsen has found that wrapped bread exposed to microwaves just before leaving the bakery remains free of mold for ten days, twice as long as bread treated only with a chemical preservative. Microwaves have also been used to pasteurize milk, beer and wine. Scientists have proposed a mobile microwave source that could be slowly moved across a farm field, generating enough energy to destroy harmful microorganisms before planting...
Apparently unbothered by the Supreme Court's latest merger ruling, last week the board of Cleveland-based Stouffer Foods Corp. approved Litton Industries' buy-out offer of about $100 million. For Litton, which annually sells over a billion dollars' worth of products ranging from ships to space components, the Stouffer acquisition marks a second venture into consumer goods. The first was The Royal McBee typewriter company, which the sprawling West Coast company picked...
...Although Litton is the king of conglomerates, its Stouffer deal may smack of what Justice Douglas called "product extension." Litton is, among other things, the biggest maker of microwave ovens, and Stouffer is one of the more advanced frozen-food processors. Together, they hope, to create dishes that can be baked or broiled in record time...
...process that cooks a 10-lb. roast beef in just over 60 minutes is still in its infant stages, and Litton is currently producing its ovens only for restaurants. But the company is experimenting with ovens for the Military and is working up a prototype for TWA to facilitate airborne cooking. No company yet produces food specifically for the microwave market, and this is where Stouffer fits into Litton's plan. As one Litton executive explains it: "What did RCA do to enlarge the market for color TV sets? It began a vigorous campaign to produce color TV shows...
...same period last year on sales of $43 million. Part of the problem, explains 65-year-old Vernon Stouffer, who parlayed his mother's recipes into millions, is cost control. "Rents and investments have grown tremendously, and higher salaries in other industries make executives difficult to obtain." Litton's resources, he points out, will be an enormous help...