Word: boomer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cream, has had an income as substantial as most of its customers. Last week) 61-year-old Childs decided to upgrade its food and its balance sheet. For "more than $2,000,000" it bought upwards of 90% of the stock in Sherry's from Mrs. Lucius M. Boomer, widow of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel's longtime board chairman. (Boomer founded the confectionery company with the late Louis Sherry after Sherry's fashionable Fifth Avenue restaurant closed down during Prohibition...