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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More notable in its way was another octogenarian's hospital gift last week. Chicago's Mrs. Adeline Wheeler, 88, wife of the late Charles W. Wheeler (grain), gave $2,000,000 to Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital. The gift comprised almost every dollar she had. It was her bequest. She died last week, having lived in Chicago's Congress Hotel since the 1893 World's Fair...
...buying and selling is done not by individuals but by cooperatives. Co-operatives in Russia do not mean organizations of all members of the same trade. They are organizations of all trades in the same community. Thus a producer's cooperative in a given community would include steel men, grain men, textile men; would handle all the production of its district. In the same way, a consumer's cooperative would do all the buying for its locality. This communal trading system obviously lends itself to the growth of legalized monopolies...
...brother Frank heads F. H. Peavey & Co., world's largest grain elevator system...
...Well" was, indeed, almost the gist of the lengthy report. Exceptions were admitted in the cases of the coal, cotton, and "grain growing" industries, and in the New England States...
Died. Alastair Ian Valentine, 73, of Chicago, onetime manager and financial director of Armour & Co., onetime President of the Armour Grain Co. and the Armour Elevator Co.; in Chicago...