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When a Texas surgeon put Dow Corning silicone implants in Uneeda Laitinen's breasts 25 years ago, he assured her they were not just safe but indestructible. "He said when I was dead in my grave, I'd have beautiful breasts," she recalls. But going from a 34B to a 36C seemed to bring on a plethora of problems: severe migraines, memory loss, aching joints and nerves so damaged that Laitinen was unaware that a hot skillet was searing her until she smelled burning flesh. Her cyst-riddled ovaries were removed, and she developed eight stomach tumors. "There...
...Barrel. Packaging made Nabisco. The company began 65 years ago as an amalgamation of regional cracker bakers, quickly dominated the industry by taking the cracker out of the barrel and putting it into a box as the original Uneeda Biscuit. Nabisco now sells its 139 kinds of cookies and crackers in 307 different packages. Raymond Loewy designs them, and they are carefully test-marketed to gauge the lure of their colors, shapes and such gimmicks as "reclosable linings...
...Hampshire, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver stopped over in Boston, ran into ugly weather, donned a slicker and sou'wester that made it a hard choice as to whether he most resembled Captain Ahab or the Uneeda Biscuit boy. In New Hampshire, Kefauver cried: "I'm here to win." Later he explained: "I want to be President of the U.S. because I have great ambitions for our country." In the same spirit, he refused to pose for photographers in his familiar coonskin cap, saying that he has reluctantly scrapped it as his political symbol because "some...
When a stockholder urged the management to reply, President Roy E. Tomlinson snapped: "This is not the tribunal for discussing the matter." So far Uneeda has refused to arbitrate the dispute on the ground that the strike was a bald breach of contract. Nevertheless, the union has shunted the case to the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, where it is now pending...
...involved squabble over the question of "equal pay for equal work" (as differentiated from wage scales based on merit or length of service), the disagreement originated in Uneeda's Philadelphia plant last January with the workers also charging breach of contract. President Calvin's 3,000 Manhattan workers struck sympathetically, followed by truck drivers. Within a few days the Newark, N. J. Cake Bakery, the Atlanta Bakery and the York, Pa. Pretzel Factory suffered walkouts. Director Ogden Mills's house at No. 2 East 69th Street was picketed.* Currently both sides are accusing each other of thuggery...