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...remote-control processes. The Army is building a completely automatic TNT factory in Joliet, 111., while work on an atomic engine for the AEC includes such contraptions as General Electric's "O-Man," a 15-ton remote-controlled claw to handle radioactive material. (It can screw a nut on a bolt, and can even be made to pick up an egg.) Oil refineries, which used to crack oil by laborious batch methods, now do it in one steady, automatic flow; a few skilled workers sit at a master-control panel, guide the crude oil through many intricate steps...
...Recipe: 1 cup finely chopped nuts; 2 ounces sweet or semisweet chocolate; 2½ cups sifted flour; 4½ teaspoons double-acting baking powder; 1teaspoon each of salt and vanilla; 1½ cups sugar; ZA⅔ cup shortening; 1¼cups milk; ⅔ cup unbeaten egg whites. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Add shortening, milk and vanilla; beat 1½ minutes, 150 strokes per minute, until well-blended. Add egg whites; beat 1½ minutes. Spoon 1¼ of batter over nuts spaced evenly over two well-greased, lightly floured 9-in. round layer pans. Sprinkle with...
...cook in four times as many shiny new pots and pans. There will be more sausages for boiling, better meat cutlets, and, for the "little Soviet consumer," a most splendid assortment of "well-wrapped candies: prozrachnaya (fruit drops), gusinye lapki (goose feet), mishka kosolapy (clumsy bear) with fruit and nut centers...
Dottie bakes her cookies in four flavors (almond butter, chocolate pecan, butterscotch nut, oatmeal pecan), but the special ingredients that keep her dough fresh-frozen, she says, "really are my secret." To expand distribution (now in Chicago, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming) and promote new products (e.g., shortcake), her major stockholders last week voted to reorganize as a $300,000 corporation, exchanging for five shares of the old $2 stock 12½ shares of new $1 stock. Says Baker Ferguson, who expects to gross $60,000 this year: "We had the most interesting little business when we started...
...Grande near Matamoros grow great fields of cotton, where only mesquite flourished 15 years ago. In booming Lower California, Mexico's newest state, ranchers have sown the republic's biggest wheat fields in reclaimed desert land, and set out hundreds of thousands of fruit and nut trees beside newly driven artesian wells. Among the volcano-ringed Puebla valleys, water led 7 miles through new mountain tunnels has brought record crops of corn and beans. Since World War II, Mexico has switched the emphasis from the revolution-blessed ejido (communal farm) to the privately owned farm, and with...