Word: caking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commander-Larabee has suffered with the decline in flour from about $7 per bbl. in 1929 to around $4 now. Its bond interest has been defaulted and a financial reorganization is being worked out. One of its best known brands is Airy Fairy cake flour, a competitor of General Foods' Swans Down. A new product is ready-to-bake Airy Fairy Kwik Biskit, over which General Mills and Washburn Crosby filed a suit charging infringement of its Bisquick trade mark. Commander-Larabee promptly filed a $1,000,000 counter suit...
...care of, the life of a tree should be about 50 years. The flowering season is in April. In November the first frosts knock the nuts to the ground where they are allowed to dry for about a month before they are milled. After the oil is extracted the cake can be used for insecticide and fertilizer...
...think, of all the sloppy individuals I have ever met, Yale students take the cake, whether you see one, five, or two dozen together," said Dorothy Mackaill in an interview yesterday afternoon as she lounged between performances in her snug dressing-room at the Metropolitan Theater. "Yale fellows always look as if they were going to fall apart; I think that Harvard men are much nicer. You might say that the Yale boys can sue me if they want...
Westward Passage (RKO) improves on Margaret Ayer Barnes's novel but is still dull, incredible. It purports to show respectable ladies how to have their cake and eat it too. Ann Harding, more phlegmatic than usual, meets a penniless young Bohemian (Laurence Olivier) and elopes with him into poverty, diaper-drying and bickering, which bounce her into the arms of an appreciative tycoon (Irving Pichel). The new husband is substantial, adequate and unexciting for ten years or until the first husband turns up again, successful, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The combination results in a triumph for romance. An attempt...
...inherited the League of Nations issue on which he hammered away at every possible opportunity. Last winter he made a particularly fervent plea for U S action. Editors began to tut-tut him as a presidential possibility. Soon Mr Baker dropped his League issue like a hot cake assured the country that he would not take the U. S. in even if he had the power to do so, advised Democrats to discard the question as a partisan issue. Most people were convinced that this about-face meant that Newton Baker was a real, if inactive, candidate for the Presidency...