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Shortly before the Korean war, a Chicago gas company injudiciously tried to raise the price of the natural gas it was selling to a power company controlled by William Wood Prince. 47, now chairman of Armour & Co. and a managing trustee of the 30-company Prince trust (TIME, March 3). Indignantly, Prince ordered his research men to find a way of bringing methane to Chicago by water transport. The result, twelve years and $50 million later: a method of shipping liquefied methane that promises to bring handsome new profits to Business Wizard Prince and to open untapped markets...
...guitar-plunking balladeer who helps chronicle Theodore Roosevelt's four years in the badlands, showing his metamorphosis from dude to rough rider, his encounters with horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and a French nobleman who tried to set up a meat-packing empire long before Swift took on Armour. Following T.R.'s memoirs about the period, the pageant's Dakota cowboys take one look at his glasses and begin calling him "Four Eyes." T.R. bats all of them and sternly vows reform when he witnesses the lynching of a horse thief...
...year the largest diamond was discovered, yellow fever broke out in New Orleans, and George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was banned from Broadway. But in the inbred lore of baseball, 1905 will always be the year in which Manager Bill Armour of the Detroit Tigers, on a sultry afternoon in August, beckoned to a gawky, 18-year-old rookie who had arrived just the day before from Augusta, Ga. "Hey, Cobb," he shouted, "look alive, and start warming up. You take Dick Cooley's place in centerfield today...
Once these major items are secured, the camper must stock up on food (Armour & Co. now markets a variety of lightweight, dehydrated foods that require no refrigeration) and cooking utensils. A nested set of aluminum skillets, bowls, cups, etc., sells for about $8, and a knife-fork-spoon combination that clips together costs 70?. A length of nylon line is handy for lashing bedrolls and tents. Flashlights and spare batteries should be packed, as well as a small kerosene lamp, books, matches in a waterproof case, first-aid kit, candle, knife, hatchet, bucket, small trench shovel, mosquito repellent, aluminum foil...
Through the Prince trust, he became chairman of five boards, president of 13 companies and director of 17, including Armour. He did not disappoint Cousin Fred, who died at 93 in 1953. As boss of Chicago's Union Stock Yards from 1949 through 1957, Billy Prince spent $2,000,000 on improvements, another $3,000,000 to enlarge and air-condition the International Amphitheatre at the Yards. When Armour needed a new chief in 1957, the board turned automatically to Director Billy Prince...