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...Little Biscuit. In France, the Yalta phrase that most chagrined a proud and sensitive nation was Winston Churchill's offer to throw France "a little biscuit" of an occupier's rights in Germany. The neutralist Le Monde seized on the phrase: ''The truth is that in a world where only material power counts, our pretensions at playing the fourth big power were judged ridiculous by the three others because they really were." Le Monde saw it as a parallel to Sir Winston's recent letter to Pierre Mendès-France. warning that if Paris...
...National Biscuit Co.'s fourth-quarter earnings reached $5,398,522 v. $4,944,070 the third quarter. The net of New York's Consolidated Edison rose to $11,513,680, some 32% above third-quarter profits...
...past few years, suggestion programs have proved so valuable that some 300 companies, Government departments and agencies have banded together in their own National Association of Suggestion Systems to promote the idea. Such blue-ribbon firms as Standard Oil (N.J.), National Biscuit. Sears, Roebuck, Internation al Business Machines, John Hancock Life. American Airlines and Westinghouse have elaborate programs. In 1953 General Motors alone paid out $2,419,709 (an average $52 a suggestion); Ford paid $542,918, Du Pont $295,382. General Electric $685,842. Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award...
...history in 1953, reflected its confidence in the future by a surprise boost in its dividend for the first quarter from $1 to $2. After the announcement, the stock shot up 3^ points in a single day's trading. Other companies reporting record 1953 sales included National Biscuit Co., Union Pacific Railroad and St. Regis Paper. The Pennsylvania Railroad reported that its revenues were the second best in history...
...years after the biscuit story, Glasgow was working as editor of the Warren Eagle-Democrat at a time when the community was going through "an explosive, hectic time, caught squarely in the painful throes of a union effort to organize the local lumber mills." Says he: "I learned rather quickly that reporting is a bit more complicated and less benign than simply estimating biscuit consumption...