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...Orson Welles theater, and they have high hopes. Originally from Montpelier, Vermont, they are the Grandpa and Grandma behind "Grandma's Cookie Factory," which is the retail branch of the wholesale cookie business they ran in Montpelier along with their son Jeff, and friend of the family David Peatman. Grandma's offers six kinds of quarter-pound chocolate chip cookies, carrot and other cakes, bagels, and "what we're going to do with ice cream," says 38-year-old Sid, "will blow your mind...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: Capitalism, at Work | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

Peter Patterer once put his barnstorming plane down in a Michigan peat bog, was intrigued by its softness, became Peter Patterer the Peatman. Richard Whitney the Broker, intrigued by peat's possibilities, once put his barnstorming cash into a Florida peat company. Most newsworthy of present peat mossers are Charles Silber, a Newark, N. J. attorney, and Giles Price Wetherill, a Philadelphia socialite.* Last week in Cherryneld. Maine, they declared their newly formed American Peat Co. ready to dig for the $16,000,000-per-year U. S. peat trade now monopolized by importers from Sweden and Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAW MATERIALS: Bog Rot | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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