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...Juice. Dehydrated like blood plasma (which is frozen, dried under vacuum), a new powdered orange juice preserves both the orange flavor and the valuable vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Reported one sampler of the powdered juice mixed with water: "The color is the same, the texture is the same as strained orange juice-even to the tiny particles clinging to the side of the glass." Developed by California Food Research Institute, the process is approaching the commercial stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Food Front | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Taxpayer. In Bargaintown, N.J., William Sampler discovered he had been paying taxes for ten years on one house that belonged to him, two that didn't. "I thought those taxes were awfully high," he observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1942 | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Composer Dett has so far been known principally for his choral works and arrangements of Negro spirituals. But last fortnight he joined the symphonic company of Composers Still and Dawson, when his sombre, ably orchestrated composition American Sampler was broadcast over the Columbia network by Conductor Howard Barlow. Last week, at the annual six-day Music Festival at Worcester, Mass., Composer Dett made musical news again. For the festival's opening program Conductor Albert Stoessel chose Dett's massive, spiritual-born oratorio The Ordering of Moses. Previously performed in Cincinnati and Manhattan, this tempestuous choral and orchestral work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer Dett | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...suspense until he finally conquered his opponent, 2 & 1. The field of 162 had narrowed down to four -and still Spectator Vines could not leave Pittsburgh. Pat Abbott was one of the semifinalists, along with three other dark horses: 23-year-old Edwin Kingsley, a husky Utah ore sampler who had tasted his first sip of fame when he eliminated Charley Yates the first day; 27-year-old Dick Chapman, who had competed in five previous U. S. Amateurs but had never before reached the first round of match play; and 23-year-old Willie Turnesa, amateur baby brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Willie | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...about to send down the ways a $200,000, seagoing sampler of his seagoing notions. Light (70 tons), fast (26 knots), she was powered by three engines totaling 2,000 horsepower, to be replaced later with a central Diesel for cruising, two light, air-cooled airplane engines for speed. Newfangled were Designer Fokker's automatic stabilizer, a vertical variable-pitch fin that works like a steerable centre board; and a stainless steel anchor that fits itself into the ship's bottom about 20 feet from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Q. E. D. | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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