Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year 100 B. C. did the world take an active interest in the sex life of the oyster. The first to make a study of oyster love was one Sergius Grata, who founded an oyster farm on Italy's Lake Lucrine. The last was omnivorous General Foods Corp. which last week announced the formation of a new subsidiary. Bluepoints Co. Inc., to take over the assets of the North Atlantic Oyster Farms, Inc. operating in Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. North Atlantic Oyster Farms, Inc. is the largest unit in the industry. Through five subsidiary companies it holds...
After the initial effort, which the oyster must perform unaided, General Foods Corp. can do much to aid the progress of the baby mollusc from the sea to the dinner tables of U. S. oyster-lovers. Old shells and brush, to which oysters happily cling, can be strewn upon the breeding-beds. Twice must the oysters be trans planted: first to a growing bed in deeper water, where they will not be buried under new spawn, then to a finishing school in waters rich with food. Such a fashionable spot is Cotuit, Long Island. Here, for the last six months...
...huge menu of General Foods Corp. (1928 sales: $101,037,092) oysters join cereals (Postum, Grape Nuts, Post Toasties), beverages (Maxwell House Coffee, Instant Postum, Baker's Cocoa, Maxwell House Tea), as well as 34 other branded food products. From his fac tories and those of his 18 manufacturing subsidiaries, able President Colby M. Chester Jr. might select enough to sea son, sweeten and serve a nourishing poly-course dinner, in which only meat would be missing. For this deletion, meat-eating President Chester, son of a famed sea-admiral, might find satisfaction in the fishy products...
...conceived of a super-holding company which would control banks throughout the country. Last week the super-holding company became an actuality. Banker Rand's Marine Union Investors, Inc., together with Stone & Webster and Blodget, Inc., White, Weld & Co., Schoellkopf, Hutton & Pomeroy, Inc., announced plans for the Marine Midland Corp., to be capitalized at approximately...
Development of group banking in the U. S. has been rapid. Long a leader of the movement is the Transamerica Corp., holding company for the Giannini institutions. Of many similar organizations formed this year, largest until last week were the First Bank Stock Corp. (TIME, Sept. 2), now controlling 43 banks in the Minnesota-Montana region, with resources of $341,000,000 and the $370,000,000 Northern Bancorporation in the same region. But greatest of all will be Banker Rand's Marine Midland Corp...