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...markets. . . . " This might mean much or little, depending on whether the President-Elect or Col. Grove or some other Chilean becomes the next President. One thing was certain however: Chile is facing famine conditions. During the week Chile Copper Co. (subsidiary of Anaconda) asked Government permission to import directly flour and other foods for its miners at Chuquicamata. Braden Copper Co. was feeding not only workers but the unemployed of Rancagua at the rate of 3,000 loaves of bread per day. Inability to import enough food results partly from the Chilean Government's long-standing policy of restricting...
...Robson as Sam's mother booms compellingly. The modernistic set of Nina's Park Avenue home is excellent. Noteworthy are frequent transparency shots which require a previously photographed background to be fitted to the foreground by the use mainly of a plate-glass screen blasted with flour...
...this point the food supply reached lowest ebb. The Red Cross provided 9,000 Ib. of Farm Board flour, but that did not go far to fill the stomachs of nearly 20,000 men, among whom twelve cases of dysentery were discovered. General Pelham Glassford produced the last few dollars in the B. E. F. treasury and renounced his stewardship. George Alman, leader of the 500 Communist veterans, was heard to remark: "I know where there are warehouses bursting with food in this town. I'm going to march the boys down there and let them help themselves...
...looks 20 years less. He started work at 14 as an office boy in Washburn Crosby Co., three years later became its youngest salesman. He was sales manager and a director of the company when he left to go with Commander-Larabee. He is credited with having sold more flour than any man in the U. S. A stanch Democrat, he recently offered to wager $1,000 he could name every plank to be adopted at the convention...
Commander-Larabee has suffered with the decline in flour from about $7 per bbl. in 1929 to around $4 now. Its bond interest has been defaulted and a financial reorganization is being worked out. One of its best known brands is Airy Fairy cake flour, a competitor of General Foods' Swans Down. A new product is ready-to-bake Airy Fairy Kwik Biskit, over which General Mills and Washburn Crosby filed a suit charging infringement of its Bisquick trade mark. Commander-Larabee promptly filed a $1,000,000 counter suit...