Word: clapp
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...early 1900s, Henry Clapp Sherman, now a professor at Columbia, discovered the value of minerals-iron, calcium, phosphorus. Then came the researches on vitamins, beginning with the discovery of a "vitamine" (B) by a Pole, Casimir Funk...
...recapitulation of the fields in this weekend's IC4A meet indicates a close race in every event. Barney Ewell will have Brown's brilliant Ken Clapp, Pitt's Harold Stickell, Penn's Palmer Hughes, and Yale's Bob Owen in the 100. In the 220, Clapp is the defending champion. Pitt's Frank Ohl and Colgate's Al Diebolt, another sensational Sophomore, will challenge the Penn State speedster...
When American Home Products Corp. (drugs, cosmetics, floor polish, etc.) bought it from Johnson & Johnson last year, the Clapp firm had a line of 29 products suitable for carrying a four-month-old infant straight through to his fifth year. Packaged in four-and-a-half-ounce tins retailing at about 8? apiece, the cans of strained or chopped liver, lamb and beef complete with vegetables and vitamins left busy mothers little to do but make up dessert for Junior...
...months ago even that effort was made easy. On the market appeared Clapp's Rennet Desserts in six flavors (vanilla, chocolate, lemon, orange, raspberry, maple). Price: 15? a package. Chief ingredients: sugar, calcium, salt, skim milk and rennet (an enzyme from a calf's fourth stomach). Children took to the new desserts, did not mistake them for spinach. Last week, because of its booming sales, Clapp broke ground for a new $250,000 addition to its model Rochester plant-a 50% increase in floor space...
...handsome, athletic Henry Wisdom ("Tex") Roden, who took over as president when Founder Clapp sold out, this growth was a triumph. Despite the competition of big firms such as H. J. Heinz Co., Beechnut, Libby, McNeill & Libby, Inc., his firm claims 25% of the industry's yearly $15,000,000 gross business, runs a dead heat with Heinz for first place. Some 35% of U. S. babies feed on prepared baby food. Fields as yet untapped (aside from the rest of the infants) are the stomach ailment trade and oldsters who may need a strained food line of their...