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...surprised to read an article in the March 10 issue of TIME, under the heading of Medicine, which conveyed a very definite mis- impression as to who was the discoverer of the process by which whey and cheese may be recombined to form a very palatable and health cheese product...
...facts of the case are that the product of this type which the Kraft-Phenix Corporation is manufacturing, known as Velveeta, is made under a license issued by the Pabst Corporation of Milwaukee, who are the owners of the existing patent covering this process...
Generally predicted last week: a Hoover veto for the new bill. Said President Hoover in his December message to Congress: "I do not favor the operation by the Government of either power or manufacturing business, except as an unavoidable by-product of some other major public enterprise...
Another new product is Zalmite, named for Zalmon Simmons, president of Simmons Co. (beds). Similar to Bakelite, this new synthetic resin will take a high gloss, will make strong, tough beds which can be stamped out by single clips of ponderous machines. Carefully guarded is the secret process by which this Zalmite is made. Zalmon Simmons when questioned, facetiously replies that it consists of "peanut shells and burlap bags...
...call this process debasing or to talk about it as the product of the machine age is merely unhumorous and professorial. The Saturday Evening Post, the radio, the moving picture do not constitute, except by a poetic extension of the term, our 'national culture.' Our national culture, like that of every other country, is composed of the best artistic writing we produce, the best sculpture, music, etc. The rest is not 'debased art' at all: it is vulgar entertainment for the great majority who have a natural (and therefore perfectly sensible) desire to be entertained vulgarly...