Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daily Mail noted that Premier MacDonald had been registered in Edinburgh as the owner of 30,000 preferred shares in McVitie and Price, biscuit manufacturers. The value of the shares was at about...
...Evening Standard, Beaverbrook journal, printed the story of MacDonald's lifelong friendship with Sir Alexander Grant, Chairman of the biscuit company. Grant's father and Mac-Donald's uncle had been fellow guards on the Highland Railway and the two boys had to a certain extent grown up together. The Standard also pointed out that Grant had only recently received a baronetcy. The implication was that the Premier had sold Grant a baronetcy...
Reading is a red-brick town, an hour from London, famed for biscuit factories. Its chief health officer- Dr. Milligan-delivered a report on the weight and height of its children as compared with American juveniles. He found that Americans were greater in both dimensions. At age 12, American boys stand 56¼ inches and weigh 79 pounds. Reading boys stand 54¼, weigh...
Those who heard Professor Moore speak on Horace yesterday, in one of the series of lectures on the "Five Great Authors," will assuredly recognize in the Roman a human and lovable poet. To them the classics can hardly be "as dry as the remainder biscuit." With greater freedom of study for upperclassmen an interest aroused by such a series of lectures could easily be followed without detriment to concentration. Indeed, any revival of interest in classics when based upon their direct appeal to the undergraduate, is a happy solution of the dilemma which haunted educators of the last decade: knowledge...
Proof that the familiar Uneeda Biscuit was not to be held lightly as a business proposition was afforded by the annual report of the National Biscuit Co. for 1923. The net earnings for last year, after all expenses, taxes and other accounts, amounted to $12,092,828?the largest net earnings in the Company's history, and equal to $5.05 on each share of its common stock after the regular 7% dividends were paid on the preferred. In 1922 the Company earned $4.53 on each common share...