Word: surete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suregobble, Surelay, Suremilk, Suretürk, Chick Builder, Calf Builder, Turkey Builder, Turkey Finisher. . . . On such products and the more familiar Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, Bisquick, is built the $150,000,000 annual business of General Mills, Inc., whose 18 flour mills, eleven feed mills, two cereal mills, six blending warehouses and 71 sales offices dot the U. S. from Honolulu to Boston like Suregobble scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years...
...hundreds of checks that he had scattered about Paris to lubricate his crooked schemes were found. Nearly all had been made out to cash. The stubs of the checks, presumably with the recipients' names, were missing. When this was discovered Chief Inspector Bony was promptly suspended from the Sureté Generate. With a month to think things over, Inspector Bony decided last week that the Government really meant business in its efforts to solve the Stavisky mystery. Back to his superiors went he with a suggestion that if he were reinstated he could find the missing check stubs...