Word: swans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance was attached to the fact that Blair and California Packing are very friendly. At present General Foods has more than 80 branded products (ten leading ones: Walter Baker's Chocolate, Maxwell House Coffee, Calumet Baking Powder, Postum, Hellman's Mayonnaise, Grape Nuts, JellO, Log Cabin Syrup, Swan's Down Cake Flour, Diamond Crystal Salt) which it distributes through 400,000 grocery stores. The average age of the component companies is 40 years. Hoariest of all is Walter Baker's Chocolate, now celebrating its 150th anniversary. Chairman of General Foods is Edward F. Hutton, husband...
...Vagabond wishes to overrun, he overruns, and that's that. The dastardly deed came to the ears of this Guardian of Vagabondia and today he exposes the whole thing. Bliss Perry will not lecture Saturday morning at 9 o'clock but he is to sing his Swan Song to Harvard this morning at 9 o'clock and tomorrow in English 55 at 10 o'clock. When Professor Perry says goodbye, the Vagabond will be there if he can find standing room...
...beatified her during the next 15 years as the virginal, wide-eyed heroine of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, The White Sister, et al. Soon to be seen is her first audible cinema, One Romantic Night, adapted from Playwright Ferenc Molnar's The Swan...
Greyhound Lines began by losing money, and Wickman sent Orville Swan Caesar to build it up. Once a mechanic's helper, Mr. Caesar entered the bus business by operating a taxi fleet in Superior, Wis., then a small stage line which was later bought by Northland Transportation. He made Greyhound Lines prosper, and as a result now, at the age of 37, is U. S. bus tycoon, President of a corporation with an estimated investment of $16,000,000 and profits (last year), of $1,549,000. He rarely leaves motors and roads to putter on his yacht...
Some years ago a friend of mine, Joseph H. Swan III, attended the International Polo matches and at one of the clubs a bartender of some renown was asked to make up a new drink to celebrate the occasion. He used one-half grape juice, one-half gin, with a dash of creme de menthe. This mixture should be stirred slowly, and served cold. It is called a "Polo Club...