Word: armour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suburban Glenview, 30,000 a day watched the four-day International Air Races (see p. 44). At the Morrison Hotel holy men gathered for the World Fellowship of Faiths conference (see p. 23). And even the stench-laden stockyards made national news when, following a long Armour & Co. proxy battle, Armour directors voted down their proposed recapitalization plan...
...MacDonald Smith, who takes fewer divots and wins fewer tournaments than any other equally able golfer in the U. S.: the Western Open Golf Championship; with 282, to Tommy Armour's 288; at Olympia Fields, Chicago. On the second day of the tournament, detectives discovered that Chicago's Public Enemy No. 4, "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, was playing in it under his real name of Vincent Gebardi. They arrested him for vagrancy at the eighth tee, where his score was one under par, accompanied him for the remaining holes. Disturbed, Golfer McGurn took...
Before the tournament started, dour, one-eyed Tommy Armour had made a brusque comment on Sarazen's reluctance to play: "Hagen, Sarazen and I ... are just about all washed up, only we don't know it." Grinning Sarazen's comment after the tournament was over was: "Pretty good for a washed-up golfer." He had finished his morning round with Goggin-200 lb., 6 ft. instructor at a San Francisco municipal course-1 up, won three of the next five holes, clinched his third P. G. A. championship with a birdie at the 32nd...
...cars" each four feet wide and twelve feet long-carrying about as much goods as a fair-sized motor truck. The freight tunnel system, begun in 1901, was mainly an accident; the first tunnels were built by an independent telephone company which went on the rocks. Reorganization followed; Ogden Armour and E. H. Harriman put in new capital. The system was enlarged, 49 connections made with different freight terminals of Chicago's numerous railroads. The tunnel system was set at work distributing and collecting package freight between railroads and shippers; also transferring freight from railroad to railroad, also distributing...
...Meat-Packer Armour after the War lost $1,000,000 a day for 130 days, died insolvent in 1927. But the oil-cracking process of one Carbon Petroleum Dubbs, in which he had plunged, made Mrs. Armour wealthy again...