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The front cover is beige with black lettering and the red logo of the Newcomen Society in North America. The back cover has: "The roads you travel so briskly lead out of dim antiquity, and you study the past chiefly because if its bearing on the living present and its promise for the future." --Lieutenant General James G. Harbord K.C.M. G., D.S.M., LL.D., U.S. Army (Ret.) (1866-1947) Late American Member of Council at London, The Newcomen Society of England.The front end page has a statement by Charles Penrose,Senior Vice-President for North America, The Newcomen Society of England. The contents of this pamphlet is an address given at the "1954 Michigan Dinner" of The Newcomen Society in North America, held in Ballroom of The Sheraton-Cadillac, at Detroit, Michigan, when Mr. Nisbet was the speaker, on May 4, 1954. The address was on the history of Gerber Products Company and their contributions to infant nutrition.