Word: syrup
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Genus jelly bean is a descendant of Turkish delight, a gelatinous confection dating from biblical times, and a French technique called panning, in which the soft centers are hard-coated with syrup and sugar; the process takes up to two weeks. Goelitz plants in California and Chicago are now on six-day weeks; new orders take two months or more. Unless you drop in at the Oval Office...
Like many small high-technology companies, B & W has parlayed astute innovation and aggressive marketing into rapid growth. In 1945 the firm started out manufacturing the valves used to mix soda water and syrup in Coca-Cola machines at soda fountains. Since then it has made machine tools for General Electric, R.C.A. and Texas Instruments. Between 1975 and 1979 business expanded by 25% annually...
Willard Scott is the saving grace of Today? His effect is more like pouring corn syrup over a previously digestible bacon-and-eggs breakfast. The freshest moment I've heard on the show occurred when Mariette Hartley told Willard to go and eat his flower...
...used to import raw materials and create new jobs." Saigon is also welcoming investment from Western nations. In partnership with Viet Nam's Ministry of Health, the French chemical firm Rhone-Poulenc has invested $500,000 in a factory where 120 Saigonese produce vitamin C, aspirin and cough syrup...
...build a blue-jean plant in the Soviet Union could be damaged by the boycott. Coca-Cola saw the Olympics as its first major penetration of the Soviet market, which Pepsi-Cola so far has cornered. The company had already sent Moscow large supplies of the concentrated Coke syrup. But last week Chairman J. Paul Austin told his old friend and fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter that the company would abide by the embargo...