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...cream machine, which looks like a potato ricer, cannot make cream without milk and butter. The butter is first desalted by melting it in hot water, which is drained off after absorbing the salt. Then the residue of pure butter fat is mixed with milk in a cup-like container at the top of the apparatus, in which is suspended a piston on the end of a handle. When the handle is pressed down, the milk and butter are forced through a narrow hole under pressure (600 lb. per sq. in.), spun down the curls of a valve and spring...
...even the Odd Volumes must remain on their dusty shelf when faced by this item from the University Calendar: "Biological Colloquium: 'The Effects of Cyanide on the Respiration of the Potato in Various Metabolic States...
...Right out of Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes from Pitch men" department in The Billboard, Mr. Hager, clutching suitcase and stand, scuttles back & forth across the stage pursued by a policeman until late in Act I. Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw in a bar of Arabian perfumed soap...
...record for that date.'' The July 1 wheat estimate-484,000,000 bu., about half a normal crop-had already told the story of the U. S. wheat farmer. The corn estimate-2,100,000,000 bu.-was by last week a piece of outdated optimism. The potato crop in upper New York State, in New Jersey, on Long Island was suffering severely. Massachusetts had to close all its forests to the public because of the fire hazard. On the Pacific Coast the fruit crop had already suffered considerably. In April and May drought had been a local...
Because spring frost delayed and summer drought blighted the German potato crop the blockade had to be relaxed in July to admit Italian, Dutch and Belgian potatoes, but it was jerked tight last week. German importers groaned as they were cut down for August 1934 to a quota of only 5% of their average monthly imports for 1931. Meanwhile the textile industry factories were put under pressure to weave artificial fibres into their cloth by an order from the Tsar forcing factories which do not use such substitutes to cut their production hours from 48 to 36 per week. Since...