Word: armours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign-Born. In the smelly pork-trimming room of Omaha's Armour plant, large, muscular women carve the slaughtered pigs with glistening ten-inch knives. They wear white uniforms, rubber aprons, and galoshes. Many are European-born, many have sons in the fighting forces. The plant is on a 24-hour basis, supplying meat to the United Nations' armies. When the war news is bad, they sometimes slash at the pigs as if they had Hitler himself in their grasp. Then production soars...
...rounds the caddies wore the players' numbers. Then Tam President George S. May insisted that no player could tee off for the third round without his number. Joe Kirkwood, famed trick-shot wizard who is accustomed to touring the world in regal style, angrily refused. So did Tommy Armour, onetime U.S. and British Open champion. Armour retired; Kirkwood was disqualified...
...strengthened by Castillo's cancellation of a great pro-Ally mass meeting scheduled to be held in Luna Park. Sponsors, the pro-British Accion Argentina and Buenos Aires' most respected citizens, had expected that 50,000 people would turn out to cheer as U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour read a message from President Roosevelt...
Died. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr., 81, pioneer meat packer, president (1910-26) of the Cudahy Packing Co.; in Chicago. Onetime stockyard cowboy, he and his brother Michael worked for Armour & Co., later established their own business. In 1900 Edward Sr. ransomed his son Edward Jr. from Kidnapper Pat Crowe for $25,000 in gold...
...When a member of the audience told Dr. Douglas Armour Thorn of Boston that in the U.S. "idle young people . . . exhaust nervous energies in the Boy Scouts and Y.M.C.A.," Dr. Thorn replied cryptically: "The American people have succumbed to a fatuous dependence on the cheerleader. . . . Our leaders lack the vision given to leaders in the totalitarian states which enables them to appreciate the vast magnitude of these [psychiatric] problems...