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Back in 1926 Gerber got to brooding about the time his wife spent in the kitchen chopping and straining vegetables for their two young children. Since his family ran a small canning plant at Fremont, Mich., Gerber decided to try straining and canning baby foods. The first products (peas, prunes, spinach, carrots, vegetable soup) were a success, both with the children and with Gerber's wife. He felt sure that other mothers would like them too, but he had to find retail outlets...
...meat today." Then the surprised priests were told to go ahead and eat them; the frankfurters were actually made of tuna fish. After other similar test runs on unsuspecting diners, "Friday Franks" were put on the market this week by Gloucester's famed old (89 years) Davis Bros, canning company...
Spit & Polish. The British mission to Washington has never (in peacetime) been as big and busy as it is today, although it has always been regarded as important. It has been presided over by a varied and colorful line of ministers and ambassadors: ¶Stratford Canning (1820-23), who reported with lordly condescension: "I have met with few instances of impertinence . . . Chewing and smoking appear on the decline; indoor spitting is also less common...
Last week, 120 teen-agers were hard at work on 550 hilly acres in upstate New York. Boys were digging potatoes, tending 75 dairy cows, painting, sandblasting a new oil storage tank, manufacturing cement blocks for new buildings, remodeling an old lodge into a modern residence hall. Girls were canning home-grown corn, washing & ironing, cooking and serving meals, doing secretarial work. They were the current citizens of the 54-year-old George "Junior Republic" at Freeville, N.Y., and though most of them were trying to make a second start in their young lives, all of them were there...
...tuna fish canning business in Sames and the development of super strength glues are also on the list of enterprises that American Research and Development is connected with...