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...agricultural extension service would send out agents to teach farmers how to grow7 the foods that Gerber wanted. Result: a Gerber plant is abuilding near Asheville, will buy $10 million worth of North Caro-ina fruits and vegetables yearly. Furthermore, Swift & Co., following the opening of an Armour & Co. plant at Charlotte, in a few months will complete a $17 million plant at Wilson, will spur the state's production of meat...
...meat packers such as Swift (Pard) and Armour (Dash), who first hesitated out of fear that human customers might object, the market proved richer by the year. They stressed the idea of an unvarying diet with a single inclusive food (mostly beef-based, cereal-fortified), crusaded for better dog nutrition. They had an irrefutable pitch: dogs that once brought stags to bay need a different diet because they are now slothful city dwellers that ride in taxicabs, get taken to fancy French restaurants, loll around hot apartments watching television...
Died. Philip Danforth Armour, 64, onetime first vice president (and grandson of the founder) of Chicago's meat-packing Armour & Co., who resigned (in 1931) in a huff after he failed to become its president; of a heart attack; in his Palm Beach, Fla. home...
...that he wanted to adopt him and change, his name, so that a member of his family could carry on. Billy accepted, took over an empire that included the, Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago Junction Railway, Live Stock National Bank. Stock Yard Inn. International Amphitheater, and stock interests in Armour and other companies. But when Cousin Fred died at 93 in 1953, he did not leave Billy a cent in cash. Instead, he turned over his estate* (annual net before taxes: above $5.000,000) to Billy to run as its salaried co-trustee with Bostonian James F. Donovan...
Director Prince's needling inventiveness has also helped make money for Armour, pushed its pharmaceutical and chemical divisions (Dial Soap, Chiffon Liquid detergent, anhydrous ammonia, soluble dried blood for plywood glue, etc.). But Prince wants 89-year-old Armour to diversify even more, recently said: "At Armour we're on the edge of a new era. I'm not selling Armour stock. I'm buying." Billy Prince hopes to usher in the new era himself...