Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato paste, ground-up peppers, tomatoes and curry powder...
...Soup Co., the world's largest producer of canned and frozen soups. Every night Murphy has soup for dinner. It may be a new soup from Campbell's experimental kitchens, a staple variety whose quality Murphy wants to check on, or he may relax with his favorite-tomato soup mixed half-and-half with milk. Whatever it is, he knows what he likes and what the U.S. consumer likes. Last week Campbell's reported sales for its 1959-60 fiscal year were up 4% over last year (to $516,190,278), per-share earnings...
THIS was all in the Campbell tradition. In 1897 a young Campbell chemist, Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, invented one of the first convenience foods, condensed tomato soup. He piled up a fortune of $115 million from soup before he died in 1930. Today Campbell sells everything from frozen blueberry pie to spaghetti sauce...
...executive assistants at each plant pause for spot taste-testing. If the celery in Sacramento's soup, or the carrots in Omaha's TV Dinner, are the wrong color or taste, the whole production batch is thrown out. Campbell once destroyed $5,000,000 worth of tomato juice because it failed to measure up to Campbell standards...
...tomato picker. Developed by the University of California and the Blackwelder Manufacturing Co., it enables one harvester and 13 other workers to do the work now done by 60 men. Like many another invention, it has already led to a further development: a new breed of tomatoes, with tougher skins to prevent damage from the machine and that ripen all at the same time. ¶"Cookies" for cows. International Harvester's hay pelletizer makes wafers from hay as it is mowed in the field. The wafers cut a farmer's loading and storage costs, lend themselves easily...