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...paint. Five years ago he set out to design a more advanced machine, which would have enough force to rip apart single-cell organisms, releasing their protein to provide a cheap and plentiful food supplement. He built the Cottell Ultrasonic Reactor, which is hardly larger than a long loaf of bread and resembles an electric drill. The reactor is a mechanical torture chamber in which liquids and semiliquids are broken down under pressures of 1 million lbs. per sq. in. This force is built up by a titanium piston that plunges back and forth within the chamber at the rate...
...went all up and down Massachusetts Avenue. "Dominick," O'Neill hailed an Italian tailor, "how's everything?" Dominick responded that the inflation was terrible; bread was up to 47? a loaf. "Tell me," asked O'Neill, "what kind of shape is the President in? Should he be impeached?" Answered Dominick: "You bet he should-I'm surprised...
...America is by far the largest consumer of energy in the world. With only one-sixteenth of the planet's population, we burn up nearly three-quarters of its total energy. We live amid constant waste and abuse of everything natural, from hills ravaged by stripmining to the meat loaf that every child is scolded for leaving on his plate...
...even provided the U.S.S.R. with $750 million in credit to make the deal possible. Thus the Soviets made off with one-fourth of the total U.S. wheat crop for a cool $ 1 billion-causing shortages and price rises that are still unchecked. Asked last week about reports that a loaf of bread from American wheat costs less in Moscow than in Washington, D.C., Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz admitted that the U.S. had been "burned" and added: "If we are burned the first time, why, maybe they did it. But if we get burned twice, that is our fault...
...form of higher food prices, although probably less than they suspect. Grain accounts for only about one-sixth of the retail price of bread. The increase in wheat prices since the spring of 1972 has added 1? or 2? to the retail price of a 1-lb. loaf of white bread. Other wheat-based products have gone up still more...