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...change goes farthest back into American life: cooking over an open fire. In the newest expensive kitchens, fireplaces or barbecue pits are standard equipment. Other householders use broilers or rotisseries. Broiler sales last year reached $72,402,000, more than quadruple :he 1952 total. One new firm, the Broil-Quik Co., grossed around $1,000,000 in 1950, its first year; by last year, sales had shot up to $10 million, and the company expects to gross between $15 million and $20 million in 1954. Welbilt Stove last year put an electric rotisserie in one of its gas ranges...
Cage & Chickadee. The chemist is kidnaped by Russian agents even before the big food companies steal his Nutro formula, and turn it to a fast buck with Piksnak ("why bother with that old-fashioned picnic lunch-basket") and Sportnutrine ("attached to the belt . . . in a handy metal kit") and Quik-Meal ("the two-second lunch for America's busiest executives...
Eighteen selling platers, worth from $1,000 to $3,000 each, were burned to death, among them names often shouted by the crowds along the rail?Dude Girl, Leisure Hour, Rogue's Gold, Bourbon, Royal Ruby and two western platers, Pik Quik and Flapjack, owned by Major R. Nicholas of Big Horn, Wyo. One hour after the chestnut horse had kicked the boards in his stall at the smell of smoke there were no more screams of burning horses. The reluctant dawn sky had turned bright blue; smoke still curled into the still air; and exercise boys were breezing their...