Word: inded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Probably the biggest privately owned egg and poultry business in the U.S. is run by tall, large-boned, greying Hobart Creighton, 46, of Warsaw, Ind. Unable to raise hogs successfully, Eggman Creighton started with chickens 18 years ago. He owned 38 acres of land and some equipment. His brother Russell, 40, had $1,500 cash. They bought 1,200 hens. Today they have 60,000 pullets and hens, occupy 1,400 acres, employ 55 people, are capitalized at $250,000, produce 30,000 eggs a day, ten million eggs a year, get premium prices. Last year they grossed...
Died. Frank Clayton Ball, 85, fruit-jar tycoon; in Muncie, Ind.* When the Mason jar patent expired in 1883, the Brothers Ball (Frank, Edmund, George, William and Lucius) turned from fish kits to glass preserving jars, acquired a virtual monopoly in manufacturing them, became one of the Midwest's wealthiest families. Aged Frank, who spent his summers in Leland, Mich., commuted to work by plane...
Grocers & Grousing. In Elwood, Ind., Grocer Harrison Holmes listened to a customer complain for an hour about rationing, got a gun and shot him dead. In Hartford, Conn., Grocer Salvatore Viola announced that he was tired of his job. Said he: "I will quit and go pick dandelions...
Gentleman from Indiana. Elmer Holmes Davis, now 53, was born in Aurora, Ind., a tired little town which got along by making boxes and coffins, selling to farmers on Saturday night and keeping one eye cocked for a rise in the Ohio River. His father, the elderly, bearded president of Aurora's First National Bank, was known as the richest man in town...
...which time he was commissioned at 1st Lt. Chaplain in the Reserves and assigned to duty with the C. C. C. This tour of duty lasted until 1942 when he was called to active duty with the Army and sent to the Chaplain School at Ft. Ben Harrison, Ind., as a student. At the completion of the course Chaplain Keller was sent to the 85th Division at Camp Shelby. In a very short time his influence was felt through the Division establishing himself, beyond a doubt in the hearts on the enlist- ed men as "the men's chaplain." This...