Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gladstone Bott, wormcast carom king; storklike Bradbury Fisher; and that horde moving up the rough at dusk, the Wrecking Crew. . . . Golf has not yet begun this season on some U. S. courses but where Funnyman Wodehouse is read, play need never cease. His long irony is always "on the meat." Never out of bounds, his approaches are infallible; his quip shots all hole out. This Ecstasy...
Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade last week forbade the Armour Grain Co. (corporation entirely separate from Armour & Co., meat packers) from further trading on their grain exchange. Thus the directors punished the company for the knavery of Armour Grain Co. employes?their thievery, their defrauding of the Farmers Cooperative Grain Marketing Corp. with burnt grain (TiME, Mar. 14), and their desecration of the Board's prestige...
...them personally. As it was he pilloried their company as one of the vicious "trusts." It was that, for Philip D. Armour I, privately honest and eleemosynary, was in commerce ruthless. Like John D. Rockefeller Sr. in oil, he forced railroads to rebate him part of his payments for meat and grain transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part of a slaughtered animal ?flesh, hide, hair, horns, hoofs, bones, bristles, offal, everything "except...
Died. Charles W. Armour, 66, Vice President of Armour & Co. (meat packers); of pneumonia; in Kansas City...