Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Notable: Armand's Powder, Chamberlain Medicine, Hawkeye Portland Cement, Rollins Hosiery, Green Colonial Furnace, Falcon Milling, Sheuerman Woolen Mills. Old Golden Coffee & Spices, Standard Biscuit, Waterbury Chemical...
...success of the issues it has backed. Many are the winners that Goldman Sachs has sponsored. It brought out a Lambert Pharmacal issue at 41¾, Woolworth at 55, May Dept. Stores at 50, Continental Can at 52½, S. H. Kress at 60, Sears Roebuck at 50, United Biscuit at 28. Special pride is taken in National Dairy Products, issued three years ago at 33. The stock has paid a 33⅓-stock dividend, followed by a 100% stock dividend, is now selling at 78. One of the original $33 shares has become worth $624. Brilliant also has been...
...National Biscuit...
American International Co. $ 6.24 Atlas Powder Company 6.50† Bethlehem Steel Checker Cab Mfg. Corp. Detroit Edison Du Pont de Nemour & Co. Erie Railroad General Cigar Co. Inc. Gillette Razor Hudson Motors National Biscuit Packard Pore Marquette R J Reynolds US Steel Corp. Ward Baking Corp.** Western Union Woolworth Wrigley
...your issue of Dec. 24 is a notice of the absorption of the Shredded Wheat Co. by the National Biscuit Co. which gives considerable space to the story of Henry D. Perky's invention of shredded wheat. From first to last this story shows almost no regard for the facts. Since it is the story which has with small variations been used as advertising for many years, I want to suggest what poor copy these careless fabrications make as compared with the true story...