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...snacks a day, dutifully reported on them for their papers. No one was more conscious of their influence than the 31 U.S. food companies who set the tables for them, filled them with food, and garnished the meals with compliments. "It is you who took the lumps out of oatmeal," glowed Wilson & Company Inc.'s President James D. Cooney, "and showed the housewife there can be something to a meal besides broiled meat and fried potatoes. You have been responsible for making eating an adventure." Food Columnist Eleanor Richey Johnston of the Christian Science Monitor knew the compliment...
Dottie bakes her cookies in four flavors (almond butter, chocolate pecan, butterscotch nut, oatmeal pecan), but the special ingredients that keep her dough fresh-frozen, she says, "really are my secret." To expand distribution (now in Chicago, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming) and promote new products (e.g., shortcake), her major stockholders last week voted to reorganize as a $300,000 corporation, exchanging for five shares of the old $2 stock 12½ shares of new $1 stock. Says Baker Ferguson, who expects to gross $60,000 this year: "We had the most interesting little business when we started...
...high sandstone ridge in the Big Indian district near Cisco-land which AEC had officially declared "barren of possibilities." Time after time Charlie got promises of money to help develop his property, but when people took a closer look, they always backed out. The Steens lived on oatmeal and beans; the only meat they had was venison which Charlie bagged on hunting expeditions. In 1950, his savings gone, Steen moved to Tucson, went to work as a carpenter to get a grubstake. After a year, the Steens sold their trailer for $375, climbed into the family jeep and headed back...
...days went by, the two youths were guarded day & night by men who threatened them with daggers when they moved. They got a single daily meal of boiled rice water or sweetened oatmeal. They were forced to write letters home begging their parents to pay, as their sufferings were increasing by the minute. The families of the two youths put advertisements in the newspapers, showing intention to pay. But Fu Tak-iam kept stalling. He had been kidnaped himself seven years before, and knew that kidnapers aren't serious until they send a slice of the victim...
...into eccentricities. The rectory grounds became a small wilderness, the rectory itself rundown and rat-ridden. The rector refused to see anyone without four days notice-in writing. His only steady contact with the parish was Burt Mefton, a handyman who brought him his groceries. The rector lived on oatmeal, apples and bread. He sent his tea and candy rations to needy parishioners...