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Stiff federal regulations also will slow building; e.g., because the new highways must have milder curves, contractors will cut through hills, not go around them. The demand for better roads will give an edge to the big contractors, since state highway officials are expected to parcel out longer pieces of road in a single contract, rather than chop them up in six-or seven-mile bits for smaller local operators. This should not pinch the small man, because the pie is big enough for all. But it will make for efficiency. As U.S. Public Roads Commissioner C. D. Curtiss said...
...world disinterest itself in these brothers, abandoning them to a fate of degrading slavery? Let all other problems be set aside . . . Perhaps if nations which sincerely love freedom and peace are united, this will be sufficient to induce those who break the fundamental laws of human understanding to milder counsels...
...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. Up to then fish shippers had been turning out a slow-frozen, cold-storage product...
...shade of Vice President Thomas ("What this country needs . . .") Marshall. Thanks to a new process, an improved 5? cigar was on sale across the U.S. After nearly a century, tobacco makers have found a way to turn damaged leaves and leftovers into a synthetic leaf that is milder and cheaper than natural tobacco...
During a blizzard that blanketed Upper Darby, Pa. last month, Appliance Dealer Mort Farr bought TV time to advertise an air-conditioner sale. Reported Farr: "It was the best sale I ever had." Last week, though the weather was milder, air-conditioner sales were setting new records throughout the U.S. Sales of room coolers alone were up 100% over last year's first quarter. The selling period for conditioners, once as brief as the Bikini season, is now being extended throughout the year as more and more consumers think of airconditioning, with its filtered air, as a year-round...