Word: flours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Marie Antoinette Claudel, daughter of French Ambassador to the U. S. Paul Claudel; and Roger Mequillet, vice president of the Societe des Grands Moulins de Paris, biggest flour mills in France. President Ernest Vilgrain of the Grands Moulins recently visited the U. S. to buy some 10,000,000 bushels of wheat (TIME...
Baker cocoanut Swans-Down flour...
...origins of bread & cake. The French wheat-man-a close friend of Herbert Hoover, and of Georges Clemenceau-is M. Ernest Vilgrain, president of the famed Société des Grands Moulins de Paris. Unlike the Mills of the Gods, the Moulins de Paris grind swiftly, grind more flour than any other chain of mills in France, and grind out steady profits absolutely without the selling thrust of advertising...
Throughout France the U. S. Washburn Crosby flour company asks from many a billboard "Eventuellement, Pourquoi Pas Maintenant?";* but the Grands Moulins de Paris have no slogan. Explaining, last week, Miller Vilgrain said: "We French millers do not advertise, and sell almost wholly to bakers, seldom to the housewife, who does little of her own bread or pastry making. The competition offered by American flour firms in France is negligible.* The French miller does not advertise or claim superiority for his individual brand of flour, because both the price and quality are regulated...
...Because flour imported into France is subject to the high protective tariff of 65 francs per cwt., whereas the corresponding duty on unmilled wheat is only 35 francs...