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High Protein. What interests researchers the most about the soybean is its high protein content (up to 50%), and this month Central Soya will begin mass production of Promine, an isolated soybean protein, at a new Chicago plant. Promine binds and emulsifies pulverized meats, such as sausages, meat loaf and bologna...
...management," has never moved too far from the kitchen, and America's housewives were ahead of the professionals in spotting the trend. In stores from New York to Los Angeles and from Houston to Detroit over the past six months, the price of bread has risen 2? a loaf, hamburger 10? a pound, children's shoes 50? a pair. Men are being charged 25? more for a haircut than they were in September, and their wives are paying from 50? to $1 more for a shampoo...
...char (a delicious fish that tastes like salmon), waterproof sealskin boots, Eskimo handicraft and art. In the Eskimos' own stores, delicacies that they canned themselves-muk-tuk (whale skin), corned and roasted seal meat, sweet-and-sour whale, walrus flippers vinaigrette-now move as briskly as canned ham loaf...
Imagine such a waste of time while one could just loaf. And even the teen-agers walk. Why, they could be sniffing glue or enjoying a goofball...
...Nightingale. His father let him dream. "No matter what the boy wants to be," he told his wife, "if it is the silliest thing in the world, let him have his own way." At 14, and gangly as a stork, Hans Christian stowed his toy theater, a loaf of bread and 13 rigsdaler into his knapsack and went to Copenhagen...