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After the 14 men reached their raft, the first officer calculated the food supply to last for 30 days, decided on the daily ration: each man got one ship's biscuit, one ounce of pemmican, four malted-milk tablets, three squares of chocolate and six ounces of water. What follows is a catalogue of torments. Tongues swelled and turned black. Sea water and the equatorial sun cut running sores. The feet of a wounded man turned gangrenous. By the 19th day, Cooke, who kept the log, recorded the first death. The body was rolled into the sea; cannibalism...
...Smith Bickmore, 51, sales expert of the National Biscuit Co., was named Nabisco president. Utah-born and educated, Bickmore joined Nabisco in 1933, was a salesman from 1935-40, in 1950 became vice president in charge of sales and advertising. He succeeds George Henry Coppers, 57, who moves up to chair man of the board, will remain Nabisco's chief executive officer...
...Pinder-so muscular that he looks like two small whales, back to back-jumps into a fathom and a half at Florida's Silver Springs. He shows how an enemy shave cream is useless under these conditions, then lathers up with Mennen Sof' Stroke, which sticks like biscuit dough while he mows the beard. A flavorsome little tuna named Judy Scott then swims into his arms...
CANNED ANNUAL REPORTS were mailed to 96,000 stockholders by American Can Co., first time a report has been sent in one of the company's own products. It was enclosed in a tube similar to one that usually holds biscuit dough...
Simple Interest. In Alexandria, Va., any dog accompanying his owner to the drive-in window of the Alexandria National Bank gets a free dog biscuit...