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...polo-playing set around Fairfield, Conn., Margaret Rudkin was merely the pretty, red-haired wife of a polo-playing stockbroker-until her son got sick. She thought that bread might be a good thing to build up his strength. Not store bread, but old-fashioned homemade bread. Mrs. Rudkin got out a bread recipe left by her grandmother. It called for flour to be milled by stone in the old-style way, quantities of whole milk and butter. So Mrs. Rudkin rolled up her sleeves, ground some wheat into flour in a coffee mill and baked bread in her kitchen...
...bread was fine for her son; neighbors also found it fine. Like many Americans, they were tired of the mass-produced American bread scientifically refined until it is purified of almost all taste. At their urging, Mrs. Rudkin took eight loaves in a wicker basket to a nearby grocer. They were sold so fast that she set up a bakery of her own in the stable of her Pepperidge Farm, hired a neighbor girl, Mary Ference, to help her bake. In three months she had sold $2,500 worth of bread. By September 1938, the end of her first year...
...supply her growing market Margaret Rudkin acquired a fleet of eight trucks, moved her plant from the stable into an empty service station in Norwalk...
...ruled her rising business like a benevolent despot. She paid wages higher than the industry level, instituted bonus and insurance plans. In return, she reserved the privilege of making them all work hard. Her employees, mostly women like the bonus- and Margaret Rudkin- enough to overlook her perfectionism As a result, Pepperidge has never been unionized...
...teams which will play a short series for the intramural championship. Coach Works will have charge of the Gore Hall squad; Coach Fishback, Standish; and Coach Rich, Smith. As there are always some men who develop later in the season, Coach Ryan and his assistants, Coaches Nelson, Philbin and Rudkin, will watch these teams carefully for promising material...