Business: Cocoa Lady

A hustling little manufacturer of candy bars, cocoa and chocolate is Ambrosia Chocolate Co. of Milwaukee which employs 155 people. Its president is a plump, smiling German named Gretchen Schoenleber who inherited the concern from her father. Miss Schoenleber, middle-aged and businesslike, regularly puts her black low-heeled brogues under her desk before 8 o'clock every morning. Once a stenographer, later general manager of Ambrosia chocolate, she rules her executives with a firm German hand, is fond of saying: "The fact I'm a woman makes no...

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