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A tin of all purpose survival biscuits arrives at civil defense headquarters. Civil defense survival crackers 1962 national biscuit. At cold war nuclear fallout shelters, these foods were stocked. The uneeda biscuit, national biscuit companys first packaged cracker, was the subject of the companys first milliondollar advertising campaign. Sunshine biscuits, kroger, the southern biscuit company, nabisco and. Founders adolphus green and william moore, orchestrated the merger and the company quickly rose to first place in the manufacturing and marketing. It has been the subsistence ration for many portions of the earth for thousands of years. The large can on the left was used to contain the survival crackers and carbohydrate supplement and bulgar wafers. Bulgur biscuits and a granulated synthetic protein dubbed multipurpose. Cracker sharing in the video with nyvideogamefreak. Nabisco brings back hardtack under pressure from new englanders 2497. These were produced around the early 1960s to stock up government shelters. In the food industry, companies produced shelter biscuits and. In 1898, the new york biscuit company and the american biscuit and manufacturing company merged over 100 bakeries into the national biscuit company, later called nabisco.

Up for sale nabisco national biscuit company civil defense crackers. Opening a tin of survival crackers from 1962 at magfest 2016. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. Full text of national biscuit company internet archive. Civil defense ration crackers july 1962, never opened ebay. Fallout shelter food supplies came in the form of crackers, biscuits, bulgar wafers and. A descendant of that company later helped form the national biscuit co. I was told one tin was opened a couple years ago and the crackers were still fine to eat. Civil defense cold war ration crackers 1962, never opened 212lb 4oz tins. Civil defense all purpose survival crackers and cans of. Kroger, nabisco, keebler then called the united biscuit company of. Collection comprises a photograph album containing 129 gelatin silver prints and two cyanotypes by anonymous photographers. These photos were sent to me by platte county emergency management.

In 1970, the nixon administration cut the national civil defense. Bents cookie factory, historic maker of hardtack, being. Civil defense museumcommunity fallout shelter supplies. The firm later introduced fig newtons, nabisco wafers, anola wafers, barnums animal crackers 1902, cameos 1910, lorna doones 1912, oreos 1912, 11 and famous chocolate wafers 1924. Bents cookie factory, an institution in milton, is being sold by the family that has run it for 63 years, and with it may go the fate of the biscuit called hardtack that sustained many a sailor. Civil defense survival crackers 1962 national biscuit nabisco tin 6 3 4 lbs. Kroger is one several baking companies contracted to produce biscuits which will be used by the office of civil defense, dept. The crackers and biscuits were wrapped in wax paper like regular saltine crackers. I had my info mixed up though, these were for fallout shelters, not wartime use. At cold war nuclear fallout shelters, these foods were.

A tin of allpurpose survival biscuits arrives at civil defense headquarters. Meet the allpurpose survival cracker, the cold warera nutrition solution. Guide to the national biscuit company photograph album. He did a story on the civil defense program in memphis during the cold war. What is the civil defense using as an interpretation for this word, fallout. Nabisco and the united biscuit company of america now keebler also.

Survival biscuits at um not for consumption local news. That unsung hero of the cold warthe indestructible kroger company survival biscuitis celebrated in photographs at the national archives and records. Frank blazich, curator at the national museum of american history, in the 1962 fallout shelter. The smaller can on the right was used to contain the survival biscuits and survival crackers. Civil defense museumcommunity fallout shelter supplies food. Civil defense all purpose survival cracker tin kroger company ohio july civil defense all purpose survival crackers tin 12 lb 4 oz sealed 1963 civil defense all purpose survival cracker tin full. The cost, he said, could be borne by business property owners in the area. Director of the washington office of civil defense, claims the biscuits. The first use of the name nabisco was in a cracker brand produced by national biscuit company in 1901.