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...office. Across the way, they reduced the telephone exchange (servicing 4,000 lines) to a pile of splintered glass and twisted wire. In the city's outskirts, they did a first-class wrecker job on a power plant. Besides crippling communications, the Reds wrecked 52 Kalgan factories (including flour, match, soap, and soy-bean sauce), depriving families of 3,000 workers of their livelihood...
Blessed by Betty Crocker (General Mills's make-believe home economist, "sponsor" of Wheaties, Kix, Cheerios, Gold Medal flour, etc.), some 100,000 "Tru-Heat" irons had already gone on sale in the Midwest. Priced at $10.15, they were snapped up. With demand for almostj any iron at an alltime high, this was no guarantee that the Tru-Heat would pay off when there were more irons on the fire. But even established appliance makers admitted that the new-fangled Tru-Heat was a good...
...General Mills's interest in home appliances had another explanation: use of flour is gradually declining in the U.S. Besides, profits in flour-making are small (raw material accounts for 80 to 90% of the selling price). Milling one-sixth of all U.S. flour (twice as much as its nearest competitor) and processing one-fifth of all U.S. dry breakfast cereals, General Mills did a gross business of nearly $300 million last year. Yet, despite the best efforts of the Lone Ranger and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, its net profit was only $7 million...
...tell manufacturers to deliver by certain dates or they would cancel the orders. They were no longer willing to take goods any time in the future-and get caught with top-heavy inventories. (This week the New Jersey Bakers Board met to consider a general shutdown to force flour prices down...
...Midwest flour millers...