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Leftist planes scouting over the Guadarramas reported new concentrations of Rightist troops near Guadalajara. Other sources reported nearly 100,000 Rightist troops going southward to join the Andalusian army of boastful "Radio General" Queipo de Llano. At week's end came a cracker. El Caudillo Franco issued an ultimatum to the Barcelona Government. The Negrin Cabinet must agree to an "unconditional surrender" before December 5 or else the long prepared Rightist offensive would start...
...cracker to last week's decree was a brief paragraph empowering Francisco Franco personally to name his own successor as Dictator of Rightist Spain...
Taking a deep breath this able scientist added a final cracker: "It is also within the realm of possibility, although it might not be wise, that we could produce ovulation that would result in more than one child if the patient wanted twins...
...same six months of 1936. C, National Biscuit Co., which has been feeling the pinch of cracker competition. showed a slight gain in the second quarter, though a poor first quarter pulled down earnings for the six months to an indicated ,400,000. For the first half of last year the figure was $6,000,000. C. Helped by modernistic chewing-gum advertising designed by Artist Otis Shepard, William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed profits of $4,354,000 for the first half of 193?-compared to $3,428,000 in the same period of last year...
...National Biscuit Co., with its innumerable packaged, trademarked lines, outmoded the old-fashioned cracker barrel, then American Sugar Refining Co. must be credited with overturning the oldfashioned sugar barrel. In both these grocery store revolutions Earl D. Babst played a spotlight role. A lawyer-turned-merchandiser, Sugarman Babst learned about trademarking as National Biscuit's general counsel, a job which involved hundreds of infringement suits, and in his Manhattan office today he has two shelves of calf-bound law books recording his legal commercial victories. Later as a Biscuit vice president, he learned about packaging, advertising, national markets, consumer...