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...Bennett Biscuit Co. was changed to Wheatsworth Inc.; two years ago it was sold to National Biscuit Co. for $5,300,000 in N. B. stock. A prime advertising stunt of Mr. Bennett's was the Wheatsworth "Gingerbread Castle" at Hamburg, N. J., designed by Joseph Urban after the opera Hansel & Gretel, visited by 500,000 people yearly...
...some 300 stores. Two months ago she made plans to offer stock in her enterprise, to expand (TIME, March 7). Apparently little stock was sold for last week Mrs. MacDougall heard that "friendly" receiverships had been granted for four of the affiliated restaurant companies of Alice Foote MacDougall, Inc., her holding company. Blamed in the petition were the Depression and "a change in the public's taste," also the fact that because of ill health and advancing age Mrs. MacDougall has not been able to supervise the restaurants personally. Not affected is the coffee business, handled...
Happiness, Too. Last week Happiness ("In Every Box") Candy Stores joined Loft, Inc., The Mirror and Pepsi-Cola Co. in their fight against Coca-Cola Co. Happiness sought $2,250,000 in damages, bringing the total of the actions to $11,750,000. Allegations were the same ones of libel and "malicious interference" with the Pepsi-Cola contracts (TiME...
Among the deals which he negotiated was the purchase of a 49% interest in Frosted Foods, Inc., owner of the Birdseye quick-freezing process. Postum Co. (now General Foods Corp.) bought the majority interest with an arrangement for payment of preferential dividends if & when earned. Frosted Foods had invested about $1,750,000 in developing the process. Goldman Sachs Trading and Postum paid $23,500,000 cash to persons affiliated with J. P. Morgan & Co. for the company. After Banker Sachs became president, Goldman Sachs Trading wrote down its Frosted Foods investment to $1, later sold it to General Foods...
Next October Erpi Picture Consultants, Inc. (subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.) will offer for sale a set of 20 one-reel sound pictures produced in the Physical Sciences Department at Chicago. The pictures will show detailed scientific experiments, synchronized with lectures by Chicago professors. Subjects include: the flow of protoplasm in plant & animal life, the excavations of Nineveh and Megiddo, the heartbeat of a dog. Price for the set will be $1,400 including projector. The university will receive no profit beyond publicity. Not intended to take the place of professors or to reduce teaching time, the films...