Word: armours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the following newsworthy corporations made the following news: Wages of Meat. The Big Four of the meat-packing industry are Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy-foundations of fabulous Chicago fortunes all. They provide work for some 150,000 people. In the eyes of the Department of Justice, a good many U. S. citizens and all farmers, the leading packers are always suspect. Yet they handle hundreds of millions of pounds of a highly perishable commodity with model efficiency, no waste and a profit, if they are lucky, of a penny or two per dollar of sales...
...when she started school-teaching. Her radio début was over Memphis Station WMC. For two years she sang free in Chicago. Then Columbia Broadcasting System gave her a contract which led to a better one with National Broadcasting Co. and a place with Phil Baker on the Armour hour. Last week's award resulted from a nation-wide balloting in which she won 23,432 votes out of 290,000. Besides her crown she received a one-and-one-half foot silver loving...
...original order for a rate reduction was entered in 1923, but Illinois Bell promptly obtained an injunction. The case was not brought to trial until 1927. The City of Chicago in behalf of subscribers retained a bright young lawyer named Benjamin F. Goldstein, legislative investigator of the Armour Grain scandal, who had prowled through the books of the telephone company for a minority stockholder. Mr. Goldstein, then 34, suggested that two other experienced lawyers were also needed. George Ives Haight, a gruff, strapping patent attorney and his partner, big, jovial Edmund David Alcock, joined the fight...
...Last week Armour & Co. stockholders voted to accept the reorganization plan sponsored by President Thomas George Lee and Boston's crusty septuagenarian Banker Frederick Henry Prince, Armour's largest stockholder (TIME, June 11). Chief item is a $55,000,000 write-down in assets to improve earnings, cut depreciation charges $2,150,000. Stated capital is reduced from $157,231,000 to $20m723.000 by the substitution of two classes of stock for three...
Adopted. By Lolita Armour Mitchell, granddaughter of Chicago's famed Packer P. D. Armour, and her husband, John J. Mitchell Jr.; a 6-month-old, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl; to be named Lolita Sheldon Mitchell. Year ago, the Mitchells adopted a boy, John J. Mitchell...