Word: armours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once upon a time, there was a boy named Billy Wood. His family, which lived in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., was well off but not royally so. His cousin, though, was a real prince - Frederick Henry Prince. He reigned over a mighty empire called Armour, which had grown rich from slaughtering and selling fattened beasts...
...happened that Frederick thought highly of Billy. He took him under his shield in far-away Chicago and taught him everything a princeling should know - which was a great deal - about running Armour. He saw to it that Billy, who was handsome and quick-witted, traveled and developed regal tastes...
Billy Prince rose rapidly and soon established sovereignty over the farthest reaches of the realm. He burnished his Armour by moving into many new fields, like pizza pies and power shovels. Into the coffers, every year for the past four years, poured more than $2 billion. All this good fortune seemed too good to be true...
...draw on East St. Louis's cheap labor sources but contribute nothing to its support. A magnet for Northbound Negroes ever since World War II, the city is overburdened with unskilled workers whose families have strained the welfare system and glutted the schools. When large plants like Swift, Armour and Alcoa pulled out for better locations, they left behind a seething, sickened slum...
...them to pay for acquisitions. Issued in moderate amounts, warrants may have no significant effect on a corporation's finances. But Manhattan's General Host Corp., which has only 2.6 million shares of common stock, last month offered 14 million warrants in its successful fight to win control of Armour & Co., whose...