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White Tile and Vegetarians. Childs has ridden out many another crisis. Founded in 1889, it got off to a fast start because Brothers Samuel and William Childs got aboard two great trends of the 20th Century: 1) the anti-germ wave (they insisted that cheap food should also be clean...
For the past year Childs Co., after more than 50 years of peddling sanitary flap jacks, "unsurpassed" coffee and (more recently) the 60? soup-to-nuts special, has been teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.
Last week three small creditors named Deerbon, Grizzle and Zinman came right out and asked the U.S. District Court in New York City to order its reorganization under Chapter X of the Federal Bank ruptcy Act. More important to the rest of Childs's creditors, they persuaded the judge...
Repeal put Childs back into the money - but not before Founder William had almost ruined it. Distraught by his brother Samuel's death (in 1925) and by financial troubles, William took the cure at Battle Creek, Mich. There Dr. John Harvey Kellogg sold him on 1) a vegetarian diet...
*Raymond Clapper, Nat Barron, Blair Bolles, Marquis Childs, Charles Gratke, Elmer Peterson