Thursday’s ad is entitled Out By The Golden Gate, and the illustration was done in 1951 by Douglass Crockwell. It’s #61 in a series entitled “Home Life in America,” also known as the Beer Belongs series of ads that the United States Brewers Foundation ran from 1945 to 1956. In this ad, despite an amazing view of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of people are ignoring it and instead are engrossed in one another or what’s on television, which appears to be an entertainer or singer — maybe Ed Sullivan? I have been to homes with similar views, and it’s hard to imagine getting jaded or apathetic with it.
Archives for June 2, 2016
Patent No. 4670274A: Process For Controlling The Germination Of Malting Barley
Today in 1987, US Patent 4670274 A was issued, an invention of Piroska Ress, Istvan Kiss, Geza Miltenyi, Antal Strahl, Imre Petro, Jozsef Farkas, Peter Biacs, Istvanne Kozma, and Istvan Debreczeny, assigned to Kobanyai Sorgyar, for their “Process For Controlling the Germination of Malting Barley.” Here’s the Abstract:
The present invention relates to controlling germination of barley in the malting process. More particularly, the invention relates to the treatment of malting barley by ionizing radiation prior to the malting process.
Barley field in Colorado.