Word: armour
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Arthritis and asthma victims, and all other users of ACTH, got some good news from Armour Laboratories last week. Highly purified "HP ACTHAR Gel" brings quicker relief than older forms of the hormone, can be injected more easily, and will cost less. Typical five-day asthma treatment will drop from $31.25 to $12; the 21-day dosage for acute early rheumatoid arthritis from...
Knives by the Carload. Keating, the son of an Austrian immigrant who became a successful tinsmith, got through Chicago's Armour Institute with twelve athletic letters and a cum laude in mechanical engineering. He thinks the best way to render his own products obsolete, and thus create new markets, is to keep improving his designs. He pays Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy $75,000 a year to think up new styles for handles, new color combinations, etc. As a result, in cutlery alone, he is now producing an average of 300,000 knives a week (ranging from...
Coulter borrowed $250,000 for new equipment, hustled business from such big shippers as Quaker Oats, U.S. Gypsum and Armour, reopened 20 freight offices across the country, and started informing shippers by postcard on every movement of their freight. He raised wages to standard rates, set up a management-labor suggestion committee, spruced up cabooses with new coats of paint, good toilet facilities, even outlets for electric razors...
Hungry & Unloved Into the Chicago offices of Armour & Co. one day in 1887 walked a hobo with a letter for the president. Its plea: give me $25. Meatpacker Philip D. Armour got a kick out of the writer's literary style, ordered the $25 paid to him, and said, "It's worth it." The writing hobo was a 28-year-old Norwegian immigrant with goldrimmed spectacles and an aristocratic face. In Norway he had been a cobbler's apprentice, woodsman, stevedore and road navvy. He had come steerage to the U.S., worked for tight-fisted Wisconsin farmers...
...Luck. His name was Pedersen. He had signed his first poems "Hamsund," after his family farm, but a careless printer dropped the final 'd' off an early byline and he stuck to the misprinted name for luck. Meatpacker Armour's $25 was one of Knut Hamsun's rare breaks in the U.S.; in 1888, he returned to Norway to write of his disenchantment with the U.S. of booming stockyards and cornlands. He had found no cultural life in the U.S., only "prudishness, self-complacent ignorance," and "patriotism engendered by tin fifes...