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...wattle huts of his royal compound at Bulawayo. The brick pile was only ceremonial; he lived in a covered wagon given him by a passing trader and used its driver's seat as his throne. He loved to show bug-eyed visitors the royal treasury: two rusty biscuit tins filled with diamonds. A crafty giant of a man who stood 6 ft. 6 in. and weighed 300 Ibs., the Matabele king was a skillful diplomat with a well-trained army constantly patrolling for trespassers. He had successfully parried the white man's advances for nearly 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: We Want Our Country | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

Grace has purchased two Dutch chocolate producers, a dairy company in Ireland and a general food company in Guatemala, increased the production of its biscuit, candy and sugar companies in Latin America. Food sales, which accounted for only 4% of Grace's revenues in 1962, reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Chemistry of Growth | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

Kellogg and Quaker Oats have seized 73% of the growing market for breakfast cereals in Britain, Heinz 63% of that country's $70 million-a-year baked-bean market and 61% of its canned-soup bowl. Led by General Mills, National Biscuit and Pillsbury, U.S. companies now control half of the French biscuit business. A Carnation subsidiary produces 85% of all the evaporated milk sold in France, and Corn Products' Knorr soups have half the German market. In Germany, a Kraft Foods subsidiary sells a line of 100 products, including cheeses and complete packaged spaghetti or rice dinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Trade: A Taste for Yankee Food | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...complex field of patents, everyday products have often inspired memorable decisions. The shredded-wheat biscuit became a courtroom cause celebre in 1938, when the Supreme Court set precedent by ruling that Kellogg could make the same biscuit as Nabisco, whose patent had expired and whose link to the shredded-wheat name had faded. The pink color of Pepto-Bismol was at issue in 1959, when a federal court in New York ruled that the pink had a "functional" purpose and therefore could be copied. Last week the Supreme Court handed down a decision of such broad impact that it overturned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patents: Knocking Down the Pole | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

Sherry is the drink Pamela Frankau is offering here for those who take it-out of a cut-glass decanter, and perhaps a biscuit to go with it. The time is 1926, when England was just recovering from the general strike. Back from assorted boarding schools, the three Weston children are assembled at a seaside resort where Daddy's musical show, The Moonrakers, is definitely not raking in the cash. Mummy has been dead for years, and Daddy has contrived a living out of a shoestring and the old school tie (Eton) by writing and acting in summer revues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kiss Them for Me | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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