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...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...
...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...
Inside the village U.S. girls eased weary legs by dipping them into churning washing machines for impromptu whirlpool therapy, astonished cooks by devouring such mixtures as hamburgers, spaghetti, marmalade and tomato juice. U.S. girl gymnasts captivated their Italian hosts by persuading their bus driver to take them to a beach instead of to a practice session amid the dusty. 1,700-year-old ruins of the Baths of Caracalla...
...original flavor. Johnson thinks that U.S. food tastes are becoming more sophisticated, but he knows better than to get too far out in front of his customers. "If you say Halibut Dante, the average American will never buy it, but if you say halibut with cream and tomato sauce, he'll not only buy it but say it's great." As for himself, Johnson prefers to eat at such expensive places as Manhattan's Pavilion and the Four Seasons, where the chefs cook to order...
...leave the East Side. I haven't been to a nightclub in ten years, and the theater bores me-and besides, I haven't got any clothes.'' Skipping blithely to politics, good Democrat Bankhead told of her active campaign plans. Over a spot of "unspiked tomato juice," she drawled: "I hope the Republicans won't hold this against me. Some of my best friends are Republicans. They have all the money, and they're the ones who can afford to buy tickets to my play...