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Harvard organizations swung into action on two fronts yesterday as the National Student League moved to uphold the Uneeda Biscuit workers' strike in New York and the Liberal Club sought to prevent the passage in the State Legislature of an anti-Communist bill...
...Saturday the courtroom was jammed. The judge asked: "Do you still refuse to answer?" Newsmen Durham & Carty got back to jail just in time for supper (a slab of sausage, three slices of bread, a biscuit soaked in molasses...
Last week dozens of big and little corporations selling biscuits, brake shoes, dynamos, table salt, telephones, bottle glass, gum and gas machines reported their profits and losses for the first half of 1934. A majority had done better in the second quarter than in the first. Of 19 big corporations only four, A. T. & T., Wrigley. National Biscuit, Corn Products, earned less than they had in the first six months of 1933. Five others jumped into the black, against losses last year: four already in the black doubled or nearly doubled their earnings; the rest showed moderate improvement...
...slow-going old giant is National Biscuit. But despite tonnage declines in its ''sweet" lines, its six months' profit, down 3% from the first half of 1933, was over $6,000,000. A big beneficiary: Ogden L. Mills...
...normally mean larger proportionate earnings, the increase in earnings has been kept down due to higher commodity and manufacturing costs and increased taxation. There also have been price reductions on some . . . products." G.F.'s big rival Standard Brands reported profits up 35% to $4,302,000. Loose-Wiles Biscuit upped its earnings from 58? per share to 67?, United Biscuit from 41? per share to 52?. National Biscuit held even with earnings at 42? per share for both quarter years...