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Soon the defiantly avant-garde Emily Carr of youth was transformed into a dumpy, frumpy, acidulous old maid. She would plod the staid streets of Victoria with a monkey on her shoulder and a mangy sheep dog at her heels, pushing a baby carriage full of groceries, while neighbors sneered, smirked, winced, howled or froze with disdain...
Morse's first big financial success was frozen orange juice, which he discovered how to make with his high-vacuum process. He helped set up what is now the Minute Maid Corp. in 1945, and after some early marketing troubles, started the frozen-orange-juice boom. Minute Maid grew into the No. 1. U.S. frozen-orange-juice company, with 30% of the market and 1953 sales of $36.4 million. Morse sold National Research's interest in Minute Maid, but he still retains a royalty agreement that will eventually net National Research more than...
With Minute Maid booming, Morse lost no time exploring other fields. National Research went into instant coffee (Holiday Brands, Inc..) and antibiotic drugs, now produces 90% of the drying equipment used by U.S. penicillin makers. For the electronics industry National Research developed high-vacuum machines for TV and radar-tube production...
Though board rates have gone up and maid service is going out, the departments controlling food and bed-making made clear profits in 1953-54, according to the Financial Report of the College released by Treasurer Paul C. Cabot this week...
Houses and college Dormitories, whose profit this past year was $10,000 more than last year's pays a greater share of the maid service than Building and Grounds. It owes $100,000 to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, however, from which it borrowed several years...