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8 unusual facts about General Foods


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In 1926 she had put into port at Gloucester on her yacht, Sea Cloud, and was served a luncheon meal which, she learned to her amazement, had been frozen six months before.

Hans Habe

Here Habe married his third wife, Eleanor Post Hutton, heiress of General Foods, in 1942.

J. Brendan Ryan

Earlier, Ryan spent nearly a decade in product management at General Foods.

He spent nearly a decade in product management at General Foods and then began a 14-year career at Ogilvy & Mather.

Log Cabin Syrup

The brand was acquired by General Foods in 1927 and remained one of that company's major brands for decades.

Long Distance Call

This was also the final episode sponsored by General Foods (Sanka, S.O.S Soap Pads), which ended its two-year primary sponsorship of the series.

Peggy Wood

When General Foods cancelled the program, there was so much protest that CBS brought it back on Sunday afternoon, this time as a filmed series.

The Story of English

It was co-produced by MacNeil-Lehrer Productions and the BBC, and was principally funded through a grant from General Foods.


Blue Sky Studios

Using their proprietary animation pipeline, the studio produced over 200 spots for clients such as Chrysler, M&M/Mars, General Foods, Texaco, and the United States Marines.

Clarence Eldridge

Following his umpiring career, he worked as an advertising manager for the REO Motor Car Company, a vice president of Young & Rubicam, vice president in charge of marketing for General Foods, and executive vice president of the Campbell Soup Company.

Gevalia

After 120 years as a family company it was sold in 1971 to Mondelēz International predecessor company, General Foods.

Johnstone and Cushing

Until its dissolution in 1962, the New York City-based company provided ads for such companies as AT&T, General Foods, Nestle, and RC Cola, drawn by artists including Milton Caniff, Albert Dorne, Lou Fine, and Alex Kotsky.


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George Sperti

His invention of an Ultraviolet "Vitamin D" lamp for irradiating milk was sold to General Foods for $300,000.