Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canoe, litter and on foot, Missionary Rodeheaver played hymns and spirituals on his battered trombone, often starting alone in a clearing and eventually attracting 1,000 or so black heathens. Sending word of his imminence by their signal drums, the Negroes called him "White Song Man," dubbed Bishop Moore "Biscuit" or "Wangi Bischoff" (Yankee bishop). For the trombone they could think of no descriptive word. A practiced sleight-of-hand artist who claims he once could do with one hand a flag trick which Magician Howard Thurston needed two to perform, Song Man Rodeheaver performed legerdemain for the Africans, taking...
...National Biscuit made $9,986,000 in 1935 compared to $11,597,000 in 1934. This was the worst year since 1923 for the world's largest biscuit company, which also makes candy, peanut butter, macaroni, ice cream cones and Shredded Wheat. National Biscuit's earnings have declined every year since their 1930 peak of $22,879,000. Processing taxes and increased competition from independents were major causes of last year's profit decline. The taxes increased manufacturing costs and the competition held down biscuit prices. National Biscuit got back some $1,000,000 of impounded processing...
...Redfern. He was dressed in a ragged singlet and underpants. He looked like a man over 40, hobbling on rude crutches made of tree branches and liana. He found difficulty at first speaking English, but evidently he had been expecting to be found. Williams gave him a biscuit and some tinned meat...
...last week many a processors' customer was impatiently looking for his cut. In Manhattan a small, blond Ultimate Consumer named Edwin Reiskind brought suit "on behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing and wasting" any of their refunded tax. Plaintiff Reiskind, a lawyer, conceded that a prorata rebate to all consumers would be impossible, thought that the money should revert to the U. S. Treasury...
...Once a week "the resident pupils" were taken on field trips, also any day girls whose parents approved. Among the places visited and reported on were: Ellis Island, Washington Market, churches, banks, skyscrapers, the Juvenile Court, City Hall, The National Biscuit Co. plants, a silk stocking factory, the Botanical Gardens, the Henry Street Settlement, a large hotel kitchen...