Word: flouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married Post's daughter Marjorie), the company diversified so fast by buying up other companies that the big shopping bag was renamed General Foods. As it continued to grow under Austin Igleheart, who had joined Postum in 1926 when it purchased his family-run company (Swans Down cake flour), and Clarence Francis, the emphasis in the food business moved more and more from manufacturing to marketing. Thus, when Francis moved up to chairman in 1954, the presidency went to Marketing Expert Mortimer...
...squeeze of the Depression. Sam and his five brothers and sisters spent their early years in one of a row of identical five-room company houses. Sam's father worked as little as one day a week in the mines, often had to queue up for free flour. The specter of the mines and a sooty lifetime behind a No. 3 shovel hung over all the boys in the coal country. Sam decided early that he was going to finish high school, no matter what, and there he found football. When Sam made the Class-B all-state team...
...wind-lashed shore of Lake Maracaibo last week, ground was broken for a new, $3,000,000 flour mill. Most of the Venezuelans who watched would have needed only one guess, if they did not know already, at the name of the man responsible for building the mill (jointly with Minneapolis' Pillsbury Co.). He is Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa, 52, a ranking example of the new, still small and largely unsung breed of Latin American industrialists who believe not only in good profit, but in productive private industry, well-treated, self-respecting labor, and-even more notable-in philanthropy...
...Israel Harris Chayen of British Glues & Chemicals, Ltd. proudly displayed a climateproof mechanical cow. Chewing its cud with the rumble of a bomber squadron, the 50-ft. machine briskly chomped up vegetable matter at one end, spewed out at the other edible, nutritious protein in the form of a flour...
Birrell spent the night in a one-man cell after supping on beans, rice and manioc flour, a far cry from the gourmet's cuisine that is his normal fare. Next morning he admitted the false-entry charges, then folded. Said Robbery and Theft Division Chief Fernando Ribeiro: "He was a broken man, broken, broken, broken." Debonairly dressed, but with sweaty brow and tremulous lips, Birrell cried: "I don't care how much it costs; I'm going to beat the rap. I'm ready to go back to the U.S. and face trial...