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...Heat in a double boiler, add yolks of three eggs slightly beaten and mix with one-third cup granulated sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Cook until it thickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...writer-men* have contributed remarks. Most of the recipes, evolved by women, are dependable. The First Lady explains as follows a coffee souffle which the President allegedly enjoys: "Mix one and one-half cups coffee, one tablespoon gelatine, one-third cup granulated sugar and-one-half cup milk. "Heat in a double boiler, add yolks of three eggs slightly beaten and mix with one-third cup granulated sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Cook until it thickens. "Add the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff, and one-half teaspoon vanilla. Mold, chill and serve with whipped cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

American Stake. How great is the stake of the U. S. in China? Citizens: 12,000. Invested busines capital: $69,300,000. Missionary and philanthropic property: $75,000,000. Trade: one-fourth of all China's imports, and one-seventh of her exports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mob Crisis | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...build a serum that cured a few cases of rheumatism. Director Krusen was delighted, for the cause of rheumatism (rheumatic fever) is obscure. Doctors know as little about it as they do about cancer. Rheumatism does not kill so many people as does cancer. Yet it is responsible for one-fourth of all heart disease deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rheumatism Serum | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...busses listed as common carriers. They operate over 352,800 miles of roads. Also there are 45,417 motor trucks in the transportation business, serving 611,921 miles of roads. The trackage of all the U. S. railroads (250,000 miles) is only one-fourth of all this. And yet the motor mileage does not include the 1,590-mile service that the Mid-West Motors Corp. expects to open next month between Dallas and Los Angeles, the longest continuous bus route operated by one company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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