Word: davide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposite the Orson Welles theater, and they have high hopes. Originally from Montpelier, Vermont, they are the Grandpa and Grandma behind "Grandma's Cookie Factory," which is the retail branch of the wholesale cookie business they ran in Montpelier along with their son Jeff, and friend of the family David Peatman. Grandma's offers six kinds of quarter-pound chocolate chip cookies, carrot and other cakes, bagels, and "what we're going to do with ice cream," says 38-year-old Sid, "will blow your mind...
...Louise baked a few cookies as a favor to a storeowner friend who sold the whole batch within two days. That gave Sid an idea. Operating out of one kitchen, Sid, Louise, Jeff and David started Grandma's and began to sell their wares to small shop owners in the area. Within two years they were selling cookies to stores throughout the country. Now the Vermont business employs a staff of five, and has a $200,000 volume of business...
...Jeff, who quit the graduate program in international affairs at American University to help out Grandma's Cookies, adds, "I'd like to make enough to be comfortable but I can't work for a boss at the State Department." David, who has participated in every step of creating Grandma's from baking to marketing, also says, "I feel like a part of it; I'm not just working to make someone else money. We have to work hard up in Vermont, but it's not an assembly line...
Rogowitz and Cohen said they feared the preliminary hearing on the case might not come until January. "If that is true, it really makes me wonder about the Rent Board's commitment to enforcing this law," City Councilor-elect David Sullivan, who drafted the ordinance, said yesterday...
...good book" is all David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology, wants under his tree. "Since there are so few of them, I'm hoping one will appear out of nowhere," he added...