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...other two being (see cut) left, Sir Sydney John Chapman, Chief Economic Advisor to His Majesty's Government since 1927, and right, Sir George Allan Powell, Chief Officer of Public Assistance to the London County Council since 1929, probably one of the world's leading authorities on asylums...
...shop lost money. Mused Allan: "If we could get them to drink a cup of our coffee they would want...
Nonetheless. Son Allan had his way. One day coffee & waffles were served free to 115 people. Many of them took home a can of MacDougall coffee. A few days later waffles & coffee were again served? for a price. From then on, to the business in coffee, tea, cocoa. English, Italian and Spanish pottery and tea sets, were added waffles...
...will be outstanding. As an inducement to buy, the company can cite a $1,684,000 volume of gross business last year. Peak year was 1929, with $2,100,000. Over-the-counter sales will be handled by Pringle, Price & Co. Largest stockholders will be Mrs. MacDougall, Son Allan, and Chain Store Fund, Inc., an investment trust which bought a minority interest in the MacDougall business two years ago. With new capital Mrs. MacDougall plans to expand her business outside the metropolitan area, to advertise nationally, to add to the 250-to-500 stores which now carry MacDougall teas, coffees...
Widow MacDougall is now 65, grey, pretty. She is still short, plump, neat and clean. Though frugal (waitresses in her Grand Central restaurant pay $10 a week for their jobs), she lives on swank Park Avenue. Her daughter Gladys married Harry Montrose Graham two years ago. Son Allan, 37, has had complete charge of the coffee business for several years (he put it in cans), is the financial brains of the organization. He is smallish, neat, curly-mustached, rides to hounds with the Spring Valley Harriers near his home at Convent, N. J. But Mrs. MacDougall is still the decorative...