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flageolet(2) (iou) and General Foods Corp. (sh)


flageolet(2) (iou)



flageolet noun2. L19.
[French, ult. from Latin phaseolus bean: see -ET1.]
A small kind of (esp. French) kidney-bean. Also flageolet bean.

General Foods Corp. (sh)




Former U.S. manufacturer of packaged grocery and meat products.

It was incorporated in 1922, having developed from the earlier Postum Cereal Co. founded by C.W. Post. It soon began acquiring Other companies and products: Jell-O Co. (1925), Swans Down flour and Minute Tapioca Co. (1926), Log Cabin (1927), Maxwell House and Calumet (1928), Birdseye (1929), Sanka coffee (1932), Gaines dog Food (1943), Kool-Aid (1953), Burpee seeds (1970), Oscar Mayer & Co. (1981), and Entenmann's bakery products (1982). In 1985 it was bought by Philip Morris Companies Inc.