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Died. Warren Wright, 75, baking-powder heir (Calumet) and racing's all-time top moneywinner ($1,402,436 in 1947); in Miami Beach. His Calumet Farm stars included Whirlaway, Pensive, Armed, Citation, Coaltown, Ponder...
First, Brahman priests bathed the dead man's body in holy Ganges water, placed a green tulsi leaf between his lips and marked his forehead with yellow sandalwood paste and red kumkum powder. Then, in the late afternoon, a gun carriage drawn by Indian soldiers, sailors and airmen carried the body through Bombay's streets while vast crowds mourned and planes overhead showered the procession with flowers. Finally, at the cemetery, the dead man's son poured incense and ghee (semifluid butter) over the body and lit the pyre. Watching the rising flames, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed...
...Budenny had been a hero of the civil war of 1918-21, but not much had been seen or heard of him since 1941 when the Nazis plowed through the armies under his command. Why had the Kremlin rulers decided to remove Budenny and his massive mustaches from naphthalene powder (Russian equivalent of mothballs)? Best guess: Budenny symbolized patriotism as distinguished from Communism, and the Kremlin was again whipping up the love of the fatherland which had so heroically stirred Russia in 1941-45. To the troops in Red Square Budenny roared...
...growth was just beginning. Mindful of George's early success with the baking powder, the brothers decided they could sell even cheaper by making still more of their goods. They started "Quaker Maid" factories to make A & P's own "Ann Page" preserves, peanut butter, etc. They set up their own American Coffee Corp. to buy direct from the growers in Brazil and Colombia. Still trying to eliminate middlemen, they set up their own Atlantic Commission Co. to buy the stores' produce. They started their own bakeries, candy and pastry shops to turn out everything from...
Young George was just as frugal as his mother. It was he who started trimming costs by getting A & P to manufacture its own products. When George learned that baking powder consisted only of soda and a carbonate, he screened off part of the Vesey Street store and set a chemist to turning it out. But it was bold, adventurous John who gave A & P its biggest shove, and made it continent-spanning in fact as well as name...