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...Biscuit? To decrease international tension caused by misunderstanding, representatives of some 500 U.S. organizations (the exact figure was undetermined) met in Philadelphia last week. They had been asked to advise the U.S. delegates to UNESCO. The meeting was the strangest infusion of brotherhood since William Penn came there to found "a greene Country Towne" in 1682-or at least since Karl Marx's First International broke up there...
...came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber. "Here," she once told her chatterbox sister Margaret, "I am not your sister, and I'll permit no slackness." Margaret, too, can be critical. "Lilibet," she once said, "that's the fourteenth chocolate biscuit you've eaten. You're as bad as Mother-you don't know when to stop...
...suits demanding the whopping sum of $1,300,000,000. The suits came so fast that newspapers ran lists of companies sued in long columns, like disaster victims-which they well might be. The unions sued Bethlehem Steel for $200,000,000, Curtis-Wright for $29,000,000, National Biscuit Co. for $50,000,000, and prepared to sue the Ford Motor Co. for $300,000,000. In all, the total of suits might reach a stratospheric $6 billion...
...food processors also won an E. Cream of Wheat's $631,549 nearly doubled its comparable 1945 earnings. Standard Brands topped last year's comparable earnings by 22%, General Foods by 16%. Sunshine Biscuit more than doubled also. So did department stores. Typical example: Gimbel Bros, had a net of some $8.5 million for the first six months, a fat 248% better than last year's first half. Up also were many utilities, pharmaceuticals, paper, containers, building products, liquor...
...want of lard, National Biscuit Co., the nation's largest baker, closed its New York and Philadelphia plants. All other big bakers either cut production or planned to close. For want of hides and leather, shoe production next month would drop to about one-third of the first-quarter level, with many shutdowns of shoe factories in the offing. For want of animal extracts, insulin and streptomycin supplies dwindled toward a critical...