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...Egypt, the corn god Osiris was plucked from the Nile early this morning. In Babylon, Tammuz was retrieved from the sea. In the Perilous Chapel, Parsifal located the Grail and thus restored the Fisher King's fertility. It could mean only one thing...
Affirmative Corn. The fastest rising phenomenon in the business is a Tin Pan Alley octopus called Aldon Music Inc., which has 35 boys and girls busy night and day composing songs. Last year Aldon turned out 300 numbers that were eventually immortalized on records, most of them strongly teen feel. "After four years," says Vice President Emil La Viola, "we've achieved an Aldon feel, a groove that's fresh and easy, a personal feel. The songs are simple, and mostly they have a negative message." Writers who have the Aldon feel down pat can make...
...Imam. "But none of my men know how to use them." Nor can they use captured tanks or trucks, since none of the tribesmen know how to drive. When they attack a tank, the tribesmen first kill off the accompanying infantrymen, then often set it afire with flaming corn stalks...
...journey toward "their succulent destinies." The reason for Shulman's enthusiasm is that while in college he worked as a pea picker for the Green Giant Co. of Le Sueur, Minn., where the pea is king. Green Giant is the U.S.'s largest canner of peas and corn, with 22 processing plants in eight states and two in Canada. In the last decade, it has raised its sales from $46 million to more than $75 million, increased earnings to $2,300,000, expanded to 38 products. It is also moving into frozen foods and embarking on a program...
Founded in 1903 by Le Sueur merchants who wanted to stimulate the town's tired economy, the company started with a single product-corn-and did not add peas to its line until 1907. Cautiously, it added asparagus in 1939, waited another 19 years before putting beans on the market. Only recently has Green Giant hopped boldly into new products. "There is just so much market for canned peas and corn in this world," says President Lurton Eugene Felton, 63, "and we were so concentrated, we were vulnerable." So diversified has the company's line become that even...