Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Five charities will go on this year's fund envelopes, with a blank line for any other a student may have. The quintet, chosen by the committee in collaboration with the deans, includes the Quaker International Voluntary Service, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, the Boston Community Fund, World Students Service Fund, and National Scholarship and Service Fund for Negro Students...
Knives were flashing in Washington. A new victim had drawn into sight: Alan Valentine, the newly appointed Economic Stabilization director. He had been promisingly launched as a sensible educator, a middle-of-the-road businessman, a Quaker and a Rhodes scholar. Then the Potomac knife throwers went to work. Their efforts provided a fascinating peek at how such things work in the nation's capital...
Behind Valentine was a life spent in universities, with some side trips into politics and into the business world. A Quaker, born in Glen Cove, N.Y., he went to Swarthmore where he played three years of varsity football, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and played on and coached the American 1924 Olympic champion Rugby team. He returned to teach English at Swarthmore, became Master of Pierson College at Yale, a professor of history and chairman of admissions, and finally at 34, president of richly endowed Rochester. Married, he has three children. Husky, handsome and emphatic, he became...
...soon richer fields were found in the West, and as the Pennsylvania reserves became depleted (the state, once first, has slipped to twelfth place among oil producers) Titusville's eleven refineries gradually dwindled to one. Last week the Quaker State Oil Refining Corp., which bought Titusville's last refinery from Cities Service Co. only a few months ago, had sorry news for oldtime roughnecks. It announced that its antiquated (built in the 1880s) refinery, which employs 70 people and has a capacity of 2,500 barrels a day, will be closed down and dismantled next month. Sighed...