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Authors: Peter Nowak
27
Levenstein, Harvey,
Paradox of Plenty: A History of Social Eating in Modern
America
, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003, pp. 89–90.
28
Ibid., p. 96.
29
Ibid.
30
Index Mundi, “Food and Live Animals Exports by Country in US Dollars,”
www.indexmundi.com/trade/exports/?section=0.
31
Singer,
Wired for War
, p. 283.
32
Forbes, “The World’s Biggest Industry,” Nov. 15, 2007,
www.forbes.com/2007/11/11/growth-agriculture-business-forbeslife-food07-cx_ sm_1113bigfood.html.
33
Author’s interview with Patrick Dunne, April 2009.
34
Weasel, Lisa,
Food Fray: Inside the Controversy Over Genetically Modified Food
, New York, Amacom, 2008, pp. 48–49.
35
Ibid.
36
Author’s interview with Dave Rogers, Nov. 2008.
37
Singer,
Wired for War
, p. 285.
1
Weapons of Mass Consumption
1
Coventry City Council,
www.coventry.gov.uk
.
2
From the Blitz Experience Museum in Coventry.
3
The New York Times
, “‘Revenge’ by Nazis,” Nov. 16, 1940.
4
The New York Times
, “Bombs on Coventry,” Nov. 16, 1940.
5
Rhodes, Richard,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995, p. 336.
6
Earls, Alan R. and Edwards, Robert E.,
Raytheon Company: The First Sixty
Years
, Great Britain, Arcadia Publishing, 2005, p. 9.
7
Ibid., p. 336.
8
Ibid., p. 338
9
Author’s interview with Norman Krim, May 2008.
10
Reader’s Digest
, “Percy Spencer and His Itch to Know,” Aug. 1958, p. 114.
11
Ibid.
12
Earls and Edwards,
Raytheon Company
, p. 21.
13
Norman Krim interview.
14
Earls and Edwards,
Raytheon Company
, p. 21
15
According to Norman Krim.
16
Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
, p. 343.
17
According to Norman Krim.
18
Bush, Vannevar,
Science: The Endless Frontier
, New York, Arno Press, 1980, p. 330.
19
Radiation Effects Research Foundation frequently asked questions,
www.rerf.or.jp/general/qa_e/qa1.html.
20
The New York Times
, “Radar,” May 23, 1943.
21
Budget of the United States Government Fiscal 2009, Historical Tables,
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/hist.pdf,
p. 47.
22
The New York Times
, “Raytheon MFG: Year’s Earnings Off Sharply,” July 13, 1956.
23
The New York Times
, “Raytheon Shows Increased Profit,” Aug. 29, 1945.
24
Author’s interview with Norman Krim.
25
The New York Times
, “War Instrument Peace-Time Boon,” May 18, 1952.
26
According to Norman Krim.
27
Inflation calculator at
www.westegg.com/inflation.
28
Ibid.
29
The New York Times
, “Cooking on No Burners,” May 5, 1957.
30
The New York Times
, “Microwaves Fail to Lure Home Cooks,” Mar. 31, 1962.
31
Ibid.
32
The New York Times
, “Microwave Sales Sizzle as the Scare Fades,” May 2, 1976.
33
Ibid.
34
The New York Times
, “Better Homes and Gadgets,” Aug. 7, 2006.
35
UK National Statistics,
Living in Britain: General Household Survey
, 2004.
36
The Scotsman
, “Microwaves in dire straits as iconic household purchase status is lost,” Mar. 18, 2008.
37
DuPont corporate history, http://heritage.dupont.com.
38
Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
, pp. 431–32.
39
Ibid.
40
Ibid., p. 603.
41
Tefal corporate history,
www.tefal.co.uk/tefal/about/history.asp.
42
The New York Times
, “Dow Explains Sales Rise,” May 30, 1950.
43
The New York Times
, “New Uses Shown for Saran Fiber,” Sept. 17, 1952.
44
The New York Times
, “Peak Net Posted by Dow Chemical,” Aug. 14, 1959.
45
Fenichell, Stephen,
Plastic: The Making of a Synthetic Century
, New York, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 232.
46
Ibid.
47
Ibid., p. 152.
48
Ibid., p. 183.
49
Ibid., p. 184.
50
I.G. Farben trial documents,
www.profit-over-life.org/rolls.php?roll=
97&pageID=1&expand=no.
51
Fenichell,
Plastic
, p. 314.
52
From testimony given in the McLibel trial, found at
www.ejnet.org/ plastics/polystyrene/mclibel_p6.html.
53
The New York Times
, “Packaging and Public Image: McDonald’s Fills a Big Order,” Nov. 2, 1990.
2
Better Eating Through Chemistry
Opening quotation from Roald Dahl’s
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
reprinted by permission of Puffin Books.
1
Armstrong, Dan and Black, Dustin,
The Book of Spam
, New York, Atria Books, 2007, p. 136.
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid., p. 140.
4
Ibid., p. 110.
5
Ibid., p. 70.
6
Levenstein,
Paradox of Plenty
, p. 85.
7
Armstrong and Black,
The Book of Spam
, p. 73.
8
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, “Soldiering on: Spam and World War II,” Sept. 14, 2007.
9
Armstrong and Black,
The Book of Spam
, p. 101.
10
The Daily Telegraph
, “Spam at heart of South Pacific obesity crisis,” Feb. 17, 2008.
11
The Cambridge World History of Food, 2000,
www.cambridge.org/us/ books/kiple/potatoes.htm.
12
Funding Universe,
www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/The-Minute-Maid-Company-Company-History.html.
13
Ibid.
14
The New York Times
, “Frozen Food Sales Growing Steadily,” Mar. 9, 1950.
15
Schlosser, Eric,
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001, p. 114.
16
Love, John F.,
McDonald’s: Behind the Golden Arches
, New York, Bantam Books, 1995, p. 329.
17
Ibid., p. 330.
18
Schlosser,
Fast Food Nation
, p. 115.
19
G.I. Jobs.,
www.gijobs.net/magazine.cfm?issueId=61&id=809.
20
American Frozen Food Institute,
www.answers.com/topic/frozen-fruits-fruit-juices-vegetables.
21
Market Line Frozen Food Global Industry Guide,
www. globalbusinessinsights.com/content/ohec0101m.pdf.
22
World Health Organization,
www.who.int/topics/obesity/en.
23
The Daily Plate,
www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/ generic/french-fries.
24
Journal of Dairy Science
, 1956, pp. 844–45.
25
Ibid.
26
Ibid.
27
Ibid.
28
Author’s interview with Howard Rogers, Aug. 2008.
29
WWII Navy Food Remembered,
www.foodhistory.com/foodnotes/ leftovers/ww2/usn/pla.
30
Infoshop report on eggs,
www.the-infoshop.com/study/mt42271-us-eggs.html.
31
Leffingwell and Associates report,
www.leffingwell.com/top_10.htm.
32
Author’s interview with Scott Smith, June 2009.
33
Levenstein,
Paradox of Plenty
, p. 109.
34
Ibid., p. 112.
35
Ibid., p. 21.
36
Ibid., p. 22.
37
Ibid.
38
Ibid., p. 69.
39
Connor, John M. & Schiek, William A.,
Food Processing: An Industrial
Powerhouse in Transition,
Second Edition, New York, John Wiley & Sons,1997, p. 33.
40
Love,
McDonald’s: Behind the Golden Arches
, p. 16.
41
Ibid., p. 121.
42
Ibid., p. 334.
43
Company website,
www.keystonefoods.com.
44
Love,
McDonald’s: Behind the Golden Arches
, p. 342.
45
Ibid., p. 342.
46
Subway is poised to surpass McDonald’s in terms of total outlets but lags far behind in revenue.
47
Ibid., p. 347.
3
Arming the Amateurs
1
Di Lauro, Al and Rabkin, Gerald,
Dirty Movies: An Illustrated History of the
Stag Film 1915–1970
, New York, Chelsea House Publishers, 1975, p. 52.
2
Playboy
, “The History of Sex in Cinema: The Stag Film,” Nov. 1976.
3
Di Lauro and Rabkin,
Dirty Movies
, p. 55.
4
Ibid., pp. 53–54.
5
Playboy
, “The History of Sex in Cinema.”
6
Di Lauro and Rabkin,
Dirty Movies
, p. 59.
7
Zimmerman, Patricia R.,
Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film
, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1995, p. 96.
8
Editors of
Look, Movie Lot to Beachhead: The Motion Picture Goes to War and
Prepares for the Future
, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1945, pp. 58–59.
9
Carl Preyer, “Movies Report on Defense Programs,”
American
Cinematographer
, Aug. 1943, p. 445.
10
C.E. Eraser, “Motion Pictures in the United States Navy,”
Journal of the
Society of Motion Picture Engineers
, Dec. 1932, pp. 546–52.
11
Zimmerman,
Reel Families
, p. 97.
12
The New York Times
, “Fastest Movie Camera Scans the War Machine,” Aug. 15, 1943.
13
Zimmerman,
Reel Families
, p. 108.
14
American Cinematographer
, “A.S.C. and the Academy to Train Cameramen for Army Services,” June 1942, p. 255.
15
Thompson, George Raynor, “Overview: The Signal Corps in World War II,”
Army Communicator, Special Edition: The Signal Corps in World War
II
, vol. 20, no. 4.
16
Zimmerman,
Reel Families
, pp. 115–16.
17
Ibid., pp. 120–21.
18
Coopersmith, Jonathan, “Pornography, Technology and Progress,” in
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
, volume4, 1998, p. 101.
19
Lane, Frederick S., III,
Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the
Cyber Age
, New York, Routledge, 2001, p. 47.
20
U.S. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography,
The Report of the
Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
, Washington D.C., GPO, 1970,pp. 129, 190.
21
Watts, Steven,
Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
, Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2008, p. 59.
22
Ibid., p. 70.
23
McDonough, Jimmy,
Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer,
King of the Sex Film
, New York, Crown, 2005, p. 125.
24
Ibid., p. 108.
25
Ibid., p. 109.
26
Ibid., p. 4.
27
Lane,
Obscene Profits
, p. 29.
28
McDonough,
Big Bosoms and Square Jaws
, p. 99.
29
Ibid., p. 210.
30
Lane,
Obscene Profits
, p. 29.
31
From Lasse Braun’s official website,
www.lassebraun.com.
32
Lane,
Obscene Profits
, p. 48.
33
From the American Presidency Project,
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ index.php?pid=
2759.