Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Criminal Caution. In Hamilton, Ont., Fire Chief William Murdoch appealed to burglars: please stamp out cigaret butts before leaving the scene of the crime...
...last week Nate Cummings sat in a new walnut-paneled office backed by a carved lion's head on the wall-the trademark of Reid, Murdoch's "Monarch" brand, which he now owns, along with the "Yacht Club" and Sprague, Warner's "Richelieu" and "None-Such...
...those five years he has bought control of 80-year-old Sprague, Warner & Co. of Chicago, of Western Grocer Co., and of Marshall Canning Co. Last week for $7,000,000 he bought control of 92-year-old Reid, Murdoch & Co. and set up Consolidated Grocers Corp. to own and run his combine. He expects it to do $100,000,000 a year of the nation's $5 to $12 billion wholesale grocery business (depending on whose figures you prefer...
...Last February he took a vacation in Palm Springs and one day rode horseback so hard that he developed a sore, which turned into a carbuncle. Still laid up (when he returned to Chicago), he had to miss a cocktail party given by Horace Armstrong, president of rival Reid, Murdoch. Afterward, when Armstrong called to tell him about the party, Nate asked, "I don't suppose you'd be interested in selling Reid, Murdoch...
Nate Cummings plans his new Consolidated Grocers Corp. to be the General Motors of the grocery business, i.e., like Buick and Chevrolet, Reid, Murdoch would compete with Sprague, Warner for sales. Consolidated's various divisions include canners. manufacturers, importers, exporters and distributors of foods-its different branches maintaining their sales autonomy. And with his new consolidation, about twice the size of any comparable wholesale grocery firm five years ago, he plans to buck the chain stores still further by giving his customers merchandising and sales help...