Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important Baker holdings include: 87,000 shares of United States Steel, 74,000 shares of American Telephone & Tele- graph, 204,000 shares of New York Central, 6,100 Pullman, 713,000 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. Other "Bakerstocks" include American Can and National Biscuit. He has been friendly with the Van Sweringens...
...General Electric 15,042 11,488 General Foods 5,990 5,572 General Motors 44,968 28,999 Gillette 2,164 1,421 Hudson Motor Car 2,316 226 Hupp Motor Car 66 680 D McGraw-Hill Publishing 534 372 Montgomery Ward 2,318 D 1,783 D National Biscuit 4,665 4,840 National Cash Register 912 373 D Otis Steel 634 20 Packard Motor Car 2,654 113 du Pont 17,347 12,656 Studebaker 1,343 809 Texas Gulf Sulphur 3,803 2,448 Westinghouse Electric 4,546 2,885D White Rock 257 2,885D
...human consumption to France, Holland, Italy, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Most of the raw material was wild range horses raised on 15 Chappel-owned ranches, which total 1,500,000 acres, in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming. Chappel products are several? puppy ration, kitty ration, kennel biscuit, pheasant meal, and leather specialties, besides food for grown dogs and foreigners? but P. M. Chappel has never attempted to sell horse meat as food for U. S. humans...
Lord Biskerton, known to his pals as the Biscuit, was son & heir (ah empty title) to the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt...
...remind guests that one branch of the family had pre-Civil War Charleston, S. C., connections. The Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton was decked out to represent a southern garden, with a Colonial portico at one end. Additional southern atmosphere was furnished by the food (fried chicken, beaten biscuit) and entertainment (Tapdancer Bill Robinson). Guests numbered 300. Most spectacular Manhattan function was given, also in the Crystal Room, by Mr. & Mrs. Franklyn L. Hutton for their daughter Barbara. Setting, designed by Joseph Urban: a moonlit garden, with eucalyptus sprays, silver birches, potted roses, a gauze canopy speckled with stars...