Word: armour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wistful inventors searched for money interest in the inquisitive eyes of exposition. If there were any over-the-counter sales of devices, they escaped attention. Nonetheless hope persisted of another Jonathan Ogden Armour passing by. The late Mr. Armour, as every inventor knows, liked to take fliers. One such was a process for "cracking" oil, worked out by Jesse and Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. When the Armour fortune faded, profits from that old gamble on Mr. Armour's part re-enriched his widow, enabled her again to live beautifully (FORTUNE, April...
...meeting the ghost alone. Hardly had Halsey, Stuart & Co. withdrawn than President Clarke called upon Fox's shareholders to elect six new directors. At the head of the list was Banker Wiggin, director of a myriad of mighty companies, also of less prosperous ones such as American Woolen, Armour & Co., International Agricultural Corp. Proposed to stand beside him were General Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose directorships include Chase National Bank, Illinois Central Railroad, and Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses; Phillip Ream Clarke, president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois; Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National...
...Armour and Co. Chicago...
Engaged. Jane, daughter of President T. George Lee of Armour & Co.; to William Edward Graham of Chicago; in Chicago...
...young Strotz who finally showed him how to finance it. He got several sport-loving businessmen of his own kind -Vincent Bendix, John F. Jelke, Jr., Vice President B. A. Massee of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Grain Trader James Norris- to go on the board. People like Jack Mitchell (Lolita Armour's husband) and Clement Studebaker, as well as most directors, bought stock...