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...automatic coffee business is Rudd-Melikian, Inc., a Pennsylvania firm founded by two wartime Air Force buddies in 1946. After experimenting with an old soft-drink machine, Captain Lloyd K. Rudd and Sergeant K. Cyrus Melikian developed an automatic dispenser that uses a quick-frozen concentrate called Kwik-Kafe. The partners grossed $14 million in 1955, have 700 employees and 250 licensed distributors servicing companies throughout the U.S. and Canada; e.g., Eastman Kodak Co. has 100 machines which sell 280,000 cups a month to workers in its Rochester plant...
...Taurum forces soon include as engaging a set of oddballs as ever evaded a Saroyan play. There is Bill Kilk, "the twelfth-richest man in the country," who manufactures "KwiK, The Lightnin' LaKsative" and "Hairum-Skarum (takes the bristles off women's legs)." There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue. There is the wily "Eye." a private detective who flunked his FBI physical "because of dirty fingernails." and acts as a special investigator for the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Documents." And there...
...missing. The KRUX of the matter involved WORD radio station call-letters. I got KIND Of a KICK OUt of WICH Calls WERE included. I'd like to KNOW the KOSY KOVE or KASM your KREW uses to WORK in. They're missing plenty. KAST a KWIK look at the KEEN KROP I KROW about. I had to WRAK my WIRY KOKO until it was a WERI WREC and hard to KEEP KOOL...
...anti-aircraft gun mounts and carriages. Weeks ahead on this contract, Firestone is also turning out machine-gun clips, other metal war goods. Goodyear is making sub-assemblies for Martin bombers. Goodrich makes fuel tanks and operates a $35,000,000 ordnance plant in Texas. U.S. Rubber makes zippers ("Kwik") for uniforms and operates an $86,000,000 arms plant in Iowa...
...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...