1926 | Marine Resources
Marine Resources
Clarence Birdseye develops a belt freezer for his General Seafoods Co., a small freezing plant on Fort Wharf at Gloucester, Mass. (see 1926). Postum Cereal boss Marjorie Merriweather Post puts in at Gloucester to have her yacht provisioned, her chef obtains a frozen goose from General Seafoods, she eats goose and seeks out Birdseye, who is selling quantities of frozen fish (and reviving the Massachusetts fishing industry) but is on the verge of bankruptcy. His freezing process impresses Post, but her stockbroker husband, E. F. Hutton, and board of directors oppose paying $2 million to buy Birdseye's patents and business (see food, 1929).