Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED- In which a San Francisco biscuit shooter transfers to a farm and an old Italian husband. The handsome farmhand sneaks up on their happiness...
...make history; that the salt, pepper and sugar in his camp's cookhouses were drawn down between the tables by four-horse teams while tens of thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches for joy at the smell of the great Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests of Utah-these and similar facts...
...corridors of the House buzzed humorously with the news that ex-Premier MacDonald had de-decided to return his Daimler automobile to its donor, together with nearly ?30,000 worth of biscuit shares "lent" to him for its upkeep. It was this car which caused such a furore in the country last fall (TIME, Sept...
...merged interests, incorporated as the Continental Baking Corp. of Maryland, will issue 2,000,000 shares of 8% cumulative dividend preferred stock, par value $100 a share; also 4,000,000 of common stock without par value. It was rumored that the Ward Bakery Co., the Loose Wiles Biscuit Co. and the American Bakery Co. may be included. Said Baker Barber: "The business of baking bread and cake looms brightly on the horizon of business enterprise. . . . about 50% of all baked goods consumed in the United States is still baked in the home by the housewife. This presents opportunities...
...week, Wall Street woke with a start to discover another new industry had invaded its security market. Strength in what facetious financial writers here dubbed the "dough stocks" emphasized the growing importance of the baking industry generally. The stock market has long been familiar with "cracker" companies like National Biscuit and Loose-Wiles; recently, the "bread companies," like United Kakeries, Ward Baking and General Baking, have attracted attention on the "Big Board" and Curb alike...