Word: quaker
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Kellogg and Quaker Oats have seized 73% of the growing market for breakfast cereals in Britain, Heinz 63% of that country's $70 million-a-year baked-bean market and 61% of its canned-soup bowl. Led by General Mills, National Biscuit and Pillsbury, U.S. companies now control half of the French biscuit business. A Carnation subsidiary produces 85% of all the evaporated milk sold in France, and Corn Products' Knorr soups have half the German market. In Germany, a Kraft Foods subsidiary sells a line of 100 products, including cheeses and complete packaged spaghetti or rice dinners...
More Supermarkets. Many native dishes have also been given the American treatment. In Brazil, International Packers of Chicago cans and sells feijoada, the country's traditional black bean, rice and pork dish. When Quaker Oats moved into Italy, it found a winning product in precooked two-minute polenta, the cornmeal mush without which no meal in rural northern Italy is complete. Last week in Mexico, where the hot dog is becoming nearly as popular as the hot tamale, General Foods began selling jars of the fiery chocolate sauce called mole. Though the French have remained staunchly traditionalist...
This week the show profiled one of Saudek's added starters, Mary S. McDowell, a Brooklyn schoolteacher who lost her job in 1917 because she refused to sign a loyalty oath or do Red Cross work. She was a Quaker and a pacifist and she knew what she believed, even though her hope for marriage had ended when a boy who loved her died in France. Of the two plays so far, this one was somewhat the better, largely because Rosemary Harris was so gently formidable as an embodiment of unbreakable principle...
...American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker service agency, said yesterday that it did not feel its work had "political overtones." The H.R. Combined Charities Committee did not put the group on its recommended list this year because it wished to avoid "organizations which are political, religious, or otherwise controversial...
...Penn basketball team will open its season in just five weeks," said the Quaker radio announcer...