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...tours. With C.W.'s death in 1914, Marjorie Post inherited several million dollars and control of the Postum Cereal Co., which by then included Post Toasties and Grape Nuts cereals. At the urging of her second husband, Manhattan Stockbroker Edward F. Hutton, the Postum Co. began adding a cupboard full of new products. The Postum Co. was renamed the General Foods Corp...
Supply rooms have become as barren as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. "There's never enough paper," complains a teacher at an inner city elementary school. "So far this year I've bought ten reams of paper myself. It's a matter of protecting your own sanity -when you see a kid without anything to do, you've got to get him a pencil and a piece of paper...
...arms giving the company commander's nom de guerre as Martin Forsythe. A patrol had entered the house on Norglen Crescent shortly after 2 a.m. A boy opened the door and immediately admitted that arms were hidden inside. Sure enough, twelve rifles were neatly stacked in a cupboard, and about 6,000 rounds of ammunition were stashed away beneath the bed of an elderly invalid...
Schmid said the rest of the games would be played in the hall. Spassky's side described the offstage room as a "chess cupboard," and warned that the Russians would not play any more games...
...Behind a cupboard in his home, police found the entrance to a windowless room containing books on black magic and witchcraft, a nail-studded raincoat, and an altar draped with black velvet. During his five-day trial, it came out that Paisnel believed that he was a descendant of Gilles de Rais, the original Bluebeard. De Rais was hanged in 1440 after admitting that he had murdered something like 200 children whom he had lured to his castle in France "for my daily pleasures...