Word: armours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful Ladies' Home Journal publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis paid $1,000 for the Satevepost (circulation: 1,800) it was a dull little rehash of British journals. Yale-educated young Lorimer, a modestly paid 30-year-old reporter on the Boston Post and only three years out of Armour & Co.'s Chicago glue works, heard of the purchase, hastily wired Cyrus Curtis, was hired as literary editor at $40 a week. He became full-fledged chief after a few weeks, threw out the shears and pastepot. For the next four decades, from nine to five he bustled...
...while he was with Armour, whose founder, Philip Danforth Armour, a parishioner of his father's, had promised to make George Lorimer a millionaire, that he gained the experience which enabled him to select the conservative articles on business, the personal experiences and success stories for which Satevepost became famous. When he had trouble getting the material he wanted, Editor Lorimer wrote it himself, among his best efforts being the shrewd and practical Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Contemptuous of things highbrow, Editor Lorimer developed the current commercial, snapper-ending short-story technique...
Smaller than the other three of the "Big Four" (Swift, Armour, Wilson), Cudahy suffered more because most of its slaughtering houses were in the drought area and it lacks its bigger rivals' range of by-products to tide it over. In the last fiscal year ending October 1936, Cudahy made $1,815,000 or $2.65 per common share. So far this year it has paid $1.87½ per common share. In passing last week's dividend, President Edward A. Cudahy Jr. explained: "Smaller volume of raw material, together with substantial increases in wages, various additional forms of taxes...
...organization, Armour's abattoir, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the Clinic may be compared. But it is illogical and stupid to infer that cutting off a hoof in process of butchering is comparable to surgical amputation. And it is altogether incorrect to imply that a specialist has so limited a field as does a meat packer and finds his work no more stimulating and broadening than grading beef. After all, the Clinic has dealt with human beings. Did you say nearly 1,000,000 of them...
...able to obtain. All this is very good. But when one thinks that the doctors, all their life, do only one thing, more or less circumscribed -the anesthetizers, for example, who only administer ether, and so on-one thinks again (such is the insidious association of ideas) of the Armour & Company butchers in Chicago, of those expert amputators of horns, hoofs, and ears, good fellows all, but who, outside of their little specialty, can do nothing else...