An old-line corporation with a reputation for tight-lipped accounting is National Biscuit Co., world's largest ("Uneeda") bakers of cookies and crackers. In the 37 years of its history it has never missed a dividend; last year made $11,598,000. On its board sit such conservative stalwarts as President Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank and onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The last person you would expect to see at its annual meetings would be a stocky, blue-eyed, personable young labor leader with a fistful of proxies from striking...
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