Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheat & Corn reacted a few cents last week but grain surpluses are small. Flour was cut as much as $1.38 per bbl. Some bakers cut the price of bread 1? per loaf. In addition to having fewer taxes to absorb, biscuit bakers and packaged food concerns will probably gain from bigger volume at lower prices. Last year their attempts to pass the tax on to the consumers made many customers so mad that they organized "buyers' strikes." Starting as a protest against the high price of meat, these strikes were ultimately directed against nearly all high-priced groceries. Last...
Round as a biscuit is the floor of the private elevator of the President of Czechoslovakia and fixed in the centre is a stately chair for 85-year-old Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk,, onetime blacksmith's apprentice, "Father of Czechoslovakia...
...Constitution. Seldom, however, has the Court had so many friends as went to its aid. Friends of the Court included the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Mountain States Beet Growers' Marketing Association, the National Beet Growers' Association offering briefs in defense of AAA. Hygrade Food Products, National Biscuit, P. Lorillard turned up as "friends'' in the person of John W. Davis (and associates) who offered a brief against AAA. These briefs were concerned with two tests of the AAAct which taxes processors to raise money to pay farmers to reduce output.* One of these, brought...
...Mont., snuggled under the eastern wall of the Rockies and at the foot of the Continental Divide, the ground trembled as with palsy. In ten days, 327 shocks of varying potency burst store windows, extinguished lights, crumpled a wall of Intermountain Union College's gymnasium, destroyed a National Biscuit warehouse, put to flight 150 bedridden patients in the Government's hospital at nearby Fort Harrison. When two people were killed, more than 40 injured, the population fled in a panic from Montana's capital, tented outside of town or slept in automobiles along open highways...
...National Biscuit's profits for the first half were reduced by labor troubles, processing taxes and higher prices for grains. Earnings of $6,200,000 in the 1934 period slumped to $4,200,000 this year...