Word: armour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheep raisers regard ewes as rather lazy beasts; most of them produce each year only one crop of lambs. The rest of the time they contribute nothing but wool to their owners' support. Last week Armour & Co., which has a commercial interest in lamb chops, announced a method of making loafing ewes do double duty...
...trick is done with hormones. Unlike some other domestic animals (e.g., mares), a ewe does not come into breeding condition soon after lambing. If she "lambs" in spring, she is seldom ready to start again until the following fall. Working under an Armour grant, Professor Frank X. Gassner of Colorado A. & M. found that carefully measured and timed injections of a gonadotrophin a few weeks after lambing could make 100 ewes produce a fall crop of 65 to 85 extra lambs. A control group of 25 ewes without hormone injections was given a ram for company, but only...
...second time in five years, scholarly Norman Armour, 62, was coaxed out of honorable retirement by the State Department last week and reassigned to active duty. Professional Diplomat Armour, who has served his country for 31 years in posts from old Petrograd to modern Buenos Aires, accepted appointment as Ambassador to Venezuela, where he will replace able Careerman Walter Donnelly, the new U.S. Minister and High Commissioner for Austria. Having served as ambassador to both Perón's Argentina and Franco's Spain, Armour is well qualified to deal with Venezuela's heavy-handed military junta...
...years since his last retirement, from the post of Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Armour has passed the time resting and traveling in Europe and Canada. His new appointment filled the most important gap in the United States network of diplomatic missions in Latin America...
...Gerber introduced chopped "junior" foods (for older children), later teamed up with Armour & Co. to put out chopped meat for moppets-a product which, along with the rising birth rate, helped Gerber double his sales in the last three years alone. Last week, Dan Gerber was betting that the U.S. trend toward bigger families would continue. Having already spent $5,000,000 on expansion since the war, he announced plans to spend $3,000,000 more for new manufacturing space at Fremont, a new warehouse in Rochester, a cereal plant in Oakland, Calif, and a new affiliate which will sell...