Word: cereal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Postum-California Packing. In San Francisco last week, stockholders of the California Packing Corp. were agitated. Their directors had met to consider an offer of the Postum Cereal Co., which is frankly out for great expansion, of $185 a share for the packing corporation's stock. The directors were about to submit the offer to the stockholders. Then suddenly and without explanation the Postum people rescinded their offer. Blair & Co. of Manhattan, bankers for California Packing, then intimated that negotiations were definitely...
Another food products merger is in progress, headed by the Postum Cereal Co. Having absorbed the Jell-O Co. (dessert jellies) some weeks ago for 80 millions, and an Indiana cake-flour concern more recently, the Postum Co. last week acquired the California Packing Co. for 92 millions and announced that it was but beginning a series of operations which would make that figure and the Postum organazition itself mere drops in the bucket. Wall Street took seriously the thought that there would eventually be a combine between the Postum-made merger and National Food Products. Among companies mentioned...
...mill a gallon is to be placed on the manufacture of near-beer and other cereal beverages. The tax was written into the bill at the request of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews, in order to enable him to have constant control and inspection of near-beer breweries to prevent them from selling high-power beer...
...vomit at will. Give such a child a small amount of the food; if he vomits give him more; continue until he keeps the food down. When he learns that you know his trick, he will stop. Begin this method when the baby takes his first spoonful of cereal...
...held, during the past few years, a number of important positions. His appointment as Minister of National Economy was acclaimed by all sections of public opinion and one of his tasks will be to give effect to Mussolini's policy of making Italy independent of cereal and coal importations by developing the colonies and the water power of Italy...