Word: tableted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Russians rolled them over, some of the dead Germans were seen to have little colored packets that looked like hotel soap. At first the Russians thought they were some kind of ersatz soap, then they were found to be foods-revolutionary tablet foods so long the favorite of popular science prophets. That was last year...
This year the revolution in foodstuffs has reached Connecticut. Where the Boston Post Road sweeps up over a hill into Greenwich, tablet foods are clacking out of packaging machines in what was once a huge, swank automobile salesroom. There are vestpocket portions of carrots, cabbage and coffee hardly bigger than a book of matches. There are blocks of onions smaller than a shoebox which will cook up to serve a hundred men. Maker of these tablets, the first commercial producer of dehydrated compressed foods in the U.S., is Auto Ordnance Co., manufacturer as well of the famed Thompson submachine...
...world. Compression adds another 30-90% to the great savings in bulk already attained by dehydration (many foods naturally average nine-tenths water). Equally important, the Cellophane-wrapped, dry-pressed foods are less likely to spoil, more amenable to the art of cookery than simply dehydrated foods-tablet mashed potatoes, properly cooked, compare better with the fresh-peeled article than with the pasty grey sogginess of World War I's dried spuds. Most dry-pressed foods need only freshening with hot water to be ready for cooking...
...years James Ensor, who never set foot out of Belgium, remained an English citizen. In 1930 Belgium's King Albert created Ensor a baron for his contribution to Belgium's esthetic reputation. Ensor became a Belgian. A street was named after him in his native Ostend. A tablet was placed on the wall of his house saying that he lived there. A statue of him was erected in Ostend's Casino Gardens. He unveiled it himself...
...came back from Chungking it took me hundreds of dollars and a long vacation to get my health back. This time I figure on the ounce of prevention. When I got to found I had bought more wisely than I knew. For example: my sulfanilamide is worth $1.50 a tablet here, and the 300 five-grain tablets of quinine I bought in Australia for two cents U.S. money apiece are worth U.S. 20? a tablet. Chinese friends come around asking for quinine, sulfanilamide and aspirin-and I feel compelled to give the stuff away because they need...