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...Aklavik in the icy Arctic came Fur Trader Stan Peffer (also a hotel owner, grocer, theater operator, sawmill proprietor). In Edmonton on his annual business trip south last week he told a tale that sounded prehistoric...
...powerful newcomer has arisen in the U.S. wholesale grocery business. Under the very noses of the alpaca-sleeved grocer barons, dapper, cold-eyed Nathan Cummings, 47, has fashioned himself a duchy. Cummings, boss of Chicago and Baltimore's Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp., wound up in twelve hours of feverish trading a deal that made him a real power in the business...
...about $1,500,000 Grocer Cummings bought up some 85% of the stock of Western Grocer Co. of Marshalltown, Iowa, one of the biggest wholesale grocers between the Mississippi and the Rockies. By this stroke, he mushroomed his interests over three-quarters of the U.S., acquiring ten canneries and one packaging plant, along with Western's subsidiary, Marshall Canning...
...such a job that in 1939 "friends in Dun & Bradstreet" asked him to run Baltimore's 72-year-old and-limping C. D. Kenny Co., wholesale grocers. He soon controlled the company. In 1942 he bought into Chicago's Sprague, Warner Co., the Midwest's biggest wholesale grocer, and merged it with Kenny...
...Flute Club's founder and president, 67-year-old Georges Barrère. Flutist Barrère, one of the few surviving devotees of the gaiter, the Prince Albert and the imperial beard, was brought to the U.S. by Walter Damrosch in 1905. Son of a Bordeaux grocer and alumnus of Paris' Folies-Bergère orchestra, he barnstormed every state in the Union with an organization known as the Barrère Little Symphony...