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...HOME For dieters who do it the Metrecal way but were never wild about the taste, Mead Johnson & Co. last week promised some alternates to the old powder, liquid and wafer forms and to the old flavors (vanilla, butterscotch and chocolate). To be introduced across the U.S. this month...
...generations, the German hausfrau who prides herself on her cakes and cookies has owed her reputation to Dr. August Oetker. Dr. Oetker's baking powder has helped better her batter since the '90s, and raised its price only once (by 2 pfennigs to 12 for a 17-gram packet). And Herr Doctor's Baking Is Fun has sold 20 million copies-more than any other book in Germany save the Bible...
...pantry. In a meteoric postwar career, Dr. Oetker's grandson, Rudolph August, 46, has made himself the nation's largest private shipowner, one of its biggest brewers, a major power in banking and insurance, and boss, in all, of more than 100 companies. Next week the baking powder baron is due in New York to inspect the Columbus Lines (18 cargo ships), which he bought from Du Pont five years...
...Movie Stars. A handsome, twice-divorced tycoon. Rudolph Oetker has built his huge empire on the modest baking powder fortune that he inherited...
...Peculiar Group." In an effort to duck taxes, he turned to building and refurbishing cargo ships, an operation which the West German government, eager to restore its war-torn merchant marine, made completely tax deductible. Oldtime Hamburg shipping men scornfully dubbed Oetker's armada the "baking powder fleet," but through astute management his fleet of 67 tankers and freighters has kept busy without resorting-as some German shipping companies have-to running Soviet-bloc cargoes for Castro. Characteristically, Oetker got into the insurance business to pare his premiums, built his Condor companies into one of Germany's biggest...