Word: childses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shiny, sanitary and serene are Childs' restaurants, home of white table tops, of gleaming nickel, of starched waitresses. In the windows, immaculate young ladies flip purest batter-cakes to the attraction, the invitation, of passersby. Old or new Childs' restaurants are superficially models of efficiency, of smoothness, of business divorced...
...Chairmanship as no honorary position. Securing a 6 to 2 control of the directors, he last week bodily removed the "usurping" executives and replaced them with members of his own family. For the time being at least, the Childs' restaurants (125 units, $37,000,000 capital) returned to the Childses...
Died. William Hamlin Childs, 71, cleansing powder tycoon (Bon Ami) of Brooklyn, N. Y.; of acute appendicitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Childs casually accepted a formula in part payment of a debt, developed Bon Ami from it. Experts recalled that Lydia Pinkham's formula was accepted by the lady as...
Childs Co. (reluctant meat-servers): $289,326 (deficit), as against $125,801 (profit).
PAUL A. CHILDS Detroit, Mich.