Word: stover
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While Herriman's characters were often somewhat shakily drawn, Crumb's drawings are all well finished products. The style of the strips is a combination of the old Disney style (you may begin counting of the fingers), Herriman's style in "Krazy Kat," Popeye, the old Looney Tunes, Smokey Stover, and Crumb's own additions...
...Stover at Yale...
Trouble was, the skilled candymaker was a lamentable businessman. He found himself with three factories-in Kansas City, Mo., Lincoln, Neb., and Denver. The three not only failed to coordinate but often engaged in costly competition among themselves. Stover finally sold out in 1943 to 26 of his employees. It may or may not be pertinent that 19 of them were women. In any case, the partners usually required a fulldress conference in order to arrive at the most routine sort of decision. Stover Candies made money, but not much...
Same Old Ways. Lou Ward was a Kansas City carton manufacturer making Stover candy boxes when he recognized Stover's potential. He raised $7,500,000 to buy out the partners. Keeping control of 47½% of the stock himself. Ward got out of debt in three years, meanwhile consolidating Stover operations, increasing the sales force, and gradually raising prices until a standard 1-lb. box of assorted chocolates now costs $1.70 (v. $1.40 in 1960). Ward has quadrupled the number of Stover retail outlets to 348; the company also wholesales to 5,150 drug and department stores...
Only in the kitchen has the company stuck to Russell Stover's old ways. It still sweetens with much more pure chocolate than sugar, uses no artificial flavorings and, despite the added cost, insists on hand-dipping its chocolates. After all, says Ward, candy buyers "are much more quality conscious than ever before. They have more money to spend." Evidently. In the fall Ward will open new candymaking plants in Virginia and South Carolina...