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...Vanillin, the flavor constituent of vanilla. Last year one-half of U.S. vanillin was synthesized from U.S. lignin, consumed by General Foods, Hershey, National Biscuit, countless numbers of ice-cream makers, the Army & Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Greatest Waste | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...American Can Co., Beech-Nut, California Packing, Campbell Soup, Continental Can, Corn Products, General Foods, H. J. Heinz, Libby, McNeill & Libby, National Biscuit, Owens-Illinois Glass, Quaker Oats, Standard Brands, Swift, United Fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Let the Chips Fall | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Helen Morgan's path from ribbon counter to Broadway included detours into a biscuit factory, nursing, posing for step-in ads. While modeling in Montreal, she was chosen Miss Mount Royal, whisked to New York City by an enterprising press agent, where she was greeted by burbling Mayor Hylan as a "Canadian beauty." Promptly signed up by Billy Rose as singer for a small hotspot, she couldn't make herself heard or seen until the late, great Ring Lardner boosted her to the top of a piano. After that, she always sat on one to sing her husky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Torchbearer's End | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...Observers concede colorful Candidate Hatfield little chance of a Senatorial nomination, but in a State which elects a song-&-biscuit man as Governor anything can happen. Says Candidate Hatfield of Governor O'Daniel (who may decide he wants the Senatorial nomination): "I think he's about out of biscuits."; Of Martin Dies (who definitely wants it): "Dies makes a fine speech but it's always the same one." "Commodore"; Hatfield's unvarying costume is a blue denim shirt, khaki pants, a three-gallon hat braided with bear grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...press preview, when he first saw himself in bronze, the Biscuit tried to take a bite out of Sculptor Wheeler's $25,000 job. But at the unveiling ceremony next day, Seabiscuit behaved with poise befitting a guest of honor. He listened to his encomiums, whinnied with nervous embarrassment while President Leigh Battson of the Los Angeles Turf Club read a poem written by Sportswriter Grantland Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seabiscuft Day | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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