Word: armours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shimmering universe in place of the old and ragged one. This transformation can be accomplished only through the stage breaking away from its present narrow limits and taking all of life as its domain. The actor is to become a crusader going into the arena resplendent in the shining armour of his art. He is to fight the great battle with that malignant it otherwise known as human destiny. He is to become a mummer of merely carrying first aid to the wretched and miserable left wounded and bleeding on life's battlefield by the inexorableuess of fate...
...present, according to Armour & Co., the packing outlook is excellent. With nation-wide prosperity, there is an active demand for packing products, especially those derived from hogs. The very large corn crop of this year also gives assurance of an ample hog supply...
...South American business conducted by Armour & Co. continues in unusually large volume. About 25% of the South American output of packing products is shipped by the local subsidiaries of the big Chicago firm, and consists almost entirely of beef destined for England and the continent. Armour & Co. consequently is now an international business, and its prosperity depends upon foreign as well as purely U. S. economic conditions...
Nevertheless, the company's business turnover is exceptionally rapid. Armour & Co. pays cash to farmers for their livestock and produce, and gets its money back from its 500,000 customers in about two weeks. On its huge gross business, estimated at $800,000,000 for the present year, credit losses are remarkably small...
...Armour was radio operator of the ship. He kept a log of the flight. Excerpts...