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promoted to the position of
Midwest regional sales manager for the industrial Products Division of AnheuserBusch, Inc., St. Louis.

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The board of directors of the
American Bakers Association
is forming a board-level subcommittee to explore potential gains to be realized from
a national nutrition education program with increased
funding and the involvement
of other grain-based foods
groups.
The American public may not
see much of the new edition
of the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans because the U.S. Department of Agriculture does
not have the funds to print and
distribute the brochures.
Paris-based Groupe Danone
S.A. has acquired a controlling
interest in Naya, Inc., doubling its presence in the North
American water market.

Standard Milling Co. will
close 80% of its flour milling
capacity at Buffalo, N.Y., on
June 27.

At an event marking the 50th
anniversary of the incorporation of U.S. affiliate of Buhler
Brothers were, from left, Rene
Buhler, chairman, with Curt F.
Schneider, president of BuhlerMiag.

Under a preliminary agreement announced in the past
week, Ward Foods, Inc. will
sell its Ready-Crust pie crust
product line to the Keebler
Co., Elmhurst, Ill.

The 100th anniversary of
Gold Medal Flour winning
its gold medal was celebrated June 4 in a gala evening
sponsored by General Mills,
Inc., and its advertising
agency for the brand, Dancer
Fitzgerald Sample, Inc.,
New York.

1940

Grupo Altex, a group of
investors led by Roberto
Servitje Achutegui, has completed the acquisition of six
flour mills from Grupo Bimbo
S.A. de C.V.

(June 18 issue) After terrible
military blunders in France,
Great Britain is quickly
regaining confidence.
England has taken steps to
mobilize all her forces and
resources in the prosecution
of the war, and the Allied
armies are offering greater
resistance to the enemy.

ConAgra, Inc. announced
June 23 that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire
International Home Foods.

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An explosion June 11 injured
13 persons and damaged
the No. 2 elevator facility of
Grain Terminal Association
at St. Paul.

Shikishima Baking Co., Japan, has opened a resident
office in Burbank, Calif., and
acquired a retail bakery to
study the possibility of opening a chain of retail baking
shops across the nation.

General Cadwallader C. Washburn, founder of the business
that later would become General
Mills, as portrayed by actor
James J. Lawless, with a portrait
of General Washburn in the
background.
Steven F. Feder has been

Announcement was made in
Washington June 17 that the
United States government is
endeavoring to co-operate
with other nations of the
Western Hemisphere to
develop a joint program
for the disposition of

Trading on the Winnipeg
Grain Exchange was halted
for a time Saturday for
prayers for the success of
the Allied cause in the war.
The prayers, it is said, were
the first ever offered on the
Winnipeg exchange.
(June 25 issue) Complete
French capitulation to
Germany and Italy exerted
a depressing influence over
markets, the extent of the
surrender arousing increased
concern over the final
outcome of the struggle in
Europe.
A testimonial dinner marking
the 25th anniversary of the
W.E. Long Co., General
Managers' Conference, was
tendered to W.E. Long at the
Edgewater Beach hotel
June 23.
Writing in The Annalist of
June 20 on "An Estimate of
the Possible Consequence
to America of a Total Nazi
Victory," Winthrop W. Case
quotes Hans Schmidt, a
prominent German who
recently came to the United
States, as forecasting a ban
on American wheat imports
by Hitler "unless Americans
show themselves agreeable
with the Fuhrer." MBN

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exportable surpluses of
wheat, corn, cotton, meats,
coffee and other products.
The program may lead to
the formation of a vast
corporation financed with
American capital.

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