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...flavoring must be added) to replace cheese in cheesecake and meat in burgers. A 4-oz. serving of tofu has nearly as much protein as an equal amount of hamburger but fewer calories (150 vs. 237) and no cholesterol. At 99? per lb., it is also cheaper. One large supplier, the New England Soy Dairy, Inc. of Greenfield, Mass., peddled 300 to 500 lbs. of curd a week in 1977, its first year. It now sells 25,000 lbs. a week...
...many shoppers have been willing to buy at the new prices. Because carriage trade customers continue to splurge, Cartier, Tiffany and other top-line stores are not suffering, but the rest of the retail business has fallen off badly. Laments Terry Weinshank, vice president of Delage Jewelers, a supplier to 500 stores throughout the Midwest: "The retail jewelry business is dying right before our eyes. In the last couple of weeks we have seen six of our customers close up, and more will follow...
Titanium. As strong as steel but 45% lighter, this metal suddenly became scarce around the world early last year, after the Soviet Union, the largest supplier of titanium "sponge," the semiprocessed metal, abruptly stopped signing new export contracts. Military experts speculate that the Soviets have diverted their normal 3,500 tons of exports to the construction of many submarines and aircraft. Since the metal is used extensively in high-performance jets, missiles and nuclear plants, U.S. and European aerospace companies have been scrambling to buy the remaining titanium sponge produced by Japan, Britain and China. As a result, since last...
World production of silver in 1979 was about 334 million Troy oz. (a pound has 12 Troy oz.). Mexico was the largest single supplier (18%), followed by the Soviet Union, Canada and the U.S. But, as has been the case for years, demand surpassed supply, by perhaps as much as 90 to 100 million oz., in part because of industrial demand. Silver is a basic ingredient in photo film, electronic components, metal brazings, batteries and, of course, jewelry and tableware...
...failing to develop the breeders, the U.S. has forfeited the trust of the Third World in America's reliability as a fuel supplier. Now the U.S. will have to change tactics. As a first step, the U.S. should seek to create an international agency, perhaps under the auspices of the United Nations, to develop solar and other energy technologies appropriate for the special conditions of resource poor, less developed countries. In many of these nations, sunlight is the most abundant natural resource. While a bank of photo-electric power cells might be inappropriate for capital-poor developing countries, solar water...