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DIED. William Black, 80, iconoclastic founder and chairman of Chock Full O' Nuts Corp.; of cancer; in New York City. Black parlayed a $250 investment hi a Broadway nut stand in the 1920s into a $116 million company that rests on a New York City chain of lunch counters, but now does 83% of its business nationally marketing its "heavenly coffee." A philanthropist who gave millions for Parkinson's disease and cancer research, Black was unusually generous with employee benefits-birthdays off with full pay, bonuses for perfect attendance, interest-free loans-and in the past year faced...
Black's message was aimed at fending off dissident shareholders trying to take control of the company he founded in the 1920s, then nursed into a group of nut stores that became Chock Full O' Nuts Corp. The company evolved into a chain of counter-service restaurants, mostly in New York City. But the biggest chunk of its fiscal 1982 sales of $116 million came from its "heavenly coffee," sold nationally under Chock Full's label and promoted in saccharine TV commercials by Black's third wife, Page, who looks fiftyish...
...there is good news for the calorie-conscious. For them, Heatter proposes a fruit survival cake and a whole-wheat yogurt date-nut gingerbread from Central Europe. One minor coup is the secret of the nut crescents for which the Austrian embassy in Washington, D.C., is renowned. Other fairly easy to make entries include Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' chocolate cookies, chocolate pepper pretzels, Joe froggers cookies (named for the inhabitants of a Marblehead, Mass., frog pond) and an inviting array of souffles and mousses, notably a sour lime mousse with strawberries. Frozen desserts vary from San Francisco ice-cream...
...costs of feasibility studies, makes and guarantees loans and sponsors foreign tours. Barco International Inc., an Ohio-based agribusiness firm, discovered the largest pig herds in Southeast Asia on a trip to Thailand in July and plans to build a slaughterhouse there. After the same trip, Hawaiian Holiday Macadamia Nut Co. decided to invest $9 million there to grow cashews and macadamia nuts and to produce chocolate candy...
...million, planters discovered that a ton of bagasse produces the equivalent electricity of 1 bbl. of oil. Bagasse now provides 7% of Hawaii's electricity needs. But the state is not relying entirely on the depressed sugar industry for biomass. It is now considering pineapple waste and macadamia nut shells as energy sources. Tree farms have been planted for future fuel, and there is promise in a treelike legume called Haole Koa now being cultivated in Kauai, which can be harvested in four years and will produce in one acre the energy equivalent...