Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chocolate biscuit...
Both lads rose in the world. From schoolteacher and invoice clerk, MacDonald became in 1924 Britain's first Laborite Prime Minister. Grant started as a baker's boy in an Edinburgh biscuit company, became general manager of McVitie & Price, Ltd. and wealthy enough to give Scotland a National Library...
...National Biscuit Co., with its innumerable packaged, trademarked lines, outmoded the old-fashioned cracker barrel, then American Sugar Refining Co. must be credited with overturning the oldfashioned sugar barrel. In both these grocery store revolutions Earl D. Babst played a spotlight role. A lawyer-turned-merchandiser, Sugarman Babst learned about trademarking as National Biscuit's general counsel, a job which involved hundreds of infringement suits, and in his Manhattan office today he has two shelves of calf-bound law books recording his legal commercial victories. Later as a Biscuit vice president, he learned about packaging, advertising, national markets, consumer...
...privilege. Imagine the pleasure that would come into the lives of our wives and mothers if during mornings spent bent over a hot stove or steaming washtub they could turn a switch and hear a lecture from Mallinckrodt, perhaps by Professor Kohler, giving them some new pointers on biscuit...
While J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. skimmed the cream of railroad financing, Goldman Sachs concentrated on industrials, which to a large extent meant selling stock, not bonds. Its clients include Woolworth, Goodrich, General Foods, Continental Can, The Lambert Co., Pillsbury Flour, United Biscuit, Phoenix Hosiery, Endicott Johnson, National Dairy Products...