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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty years ago able Will Keith Kellogg quit the business managership of his brother Dr. John Harvey's Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association in Battle Creek, founded the Sanitas Nut Food Do., Ltd., to manufacture the health foods the doctor fed his patients. His little firm, now the Kellogg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: 40 Years Later | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Into the presidency of Kellogg stepped tall, grey-haired, grey-eyed William H. Vanderploeg (rhymes with Kalamazoo). Plucked from a vice-presidency in Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank last July, he had been Kellogg's executive vice president. To the chairmanship retired Will Keith, hoping to devote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: 40 Years Later | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Able Banker Vanderploeg's big job will be to restore Kellogg's profits, down last year to $2,174,581 (less than half of 1934-35-36) due mainly to a $2,000,000 increase in operating expenses. Directors last week made it appear that profits are already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: 40 Years Later | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"Contrary to current impression, Sid doesn't spend his days leaning over a washtub and I don't do the ironing," said Partner Shields, kidded by fellow men-about-town. Nevertheless, Socialites Wood and Shields-one the owner of a California gold mine and the other a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rackets and Washtubs | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

THE LIFE OF GREECE-Will Durant-Simon and Schuster ($3.95).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: New History | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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