Word: armour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claims and because Standard Oil of California was reported anxious to bid for the company it was thought that the offer would not be accepted at once. Fertilizer Merger. A merger was arranged last week between Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp., a leading producer of fertilizer and sulphuric acid, and Armour Fertilizer Works, wholly-owned subsidiary of Armour & Co. of Delaware. The merged business will be known as Virginia-Carolina Fertilizer Corp., will be 61% owned by Armour. Virginia-Carolina has never made satisfactory profits. It sells mainly to farmers in the cotton and tobacco belts. Its president, Charles G. Wilson...
...training to win the British Open, so he practiced on windy days at seaside courses because he expected bad weather abroad. When Sarazen went out to qualify at Sandwich last week, there was scarcely a breeze. He got in comfortably with a 149, a few strokes back of Tommy Armour, the defending champion...
...Swift of Swift & Co. (a meat peddler of Barnstable, Mass, who went West to enter Chicago's packing industry), Son Edward Foster grew up in his father's business as a shrewd cattle buyer, headed the worldwide organization after Elder Brother Louis Franklin retired last January. Unlike Armour & Co. (in which there are now no active Armours), Swift & Co. has had all the services of all the Swifts. Day before Chairman Swift's death, the company had halved its dividend...
...which they handled 114 other than meat) and ordered to get rid of their stockyards and terminal facilities, their market newspapers, their warehouse investments. Because the packers agreed to do this rather than face possible fines for criminal acts the case was called the "Consent Decree." Year ago Armour and Swift, backed by lesser packers, sought to have the decree modified. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia agreed to their plea that distribution methods have changed, that they should be allowed to handle (wholesale only) groceries, fruits, vegetables, dairy products...
...Fogelson surmised that if he fed patients great quantities of mucin, enough mucin would remain in their stomachs to coat the ulcers against the gastric juices. A surplus of mucin would also counteract the destructive juices. Dr. Fred Fenger of Armour & Co.'s research laboratory in organotherapeutics furnished a supply of mucin from hog stomachs. Dr. Fogelson tried this on dogs. The mucin worked...