Word: packers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Claire Dux married Charles Henry Swift. Packer Swift is one of the richest men in Chicago and has helped its Symphony for 30 years. Claire Dux soloed with the Chicago Symphony in 1935. Last week she sang with the Symphony again. While Packer Swift watched anxiously from his box, Dux undertook the Strauss and Mozart she has loved since youth. Though her voice has lost freshness and size, she treated every phase with marvelous control. When, later in the week, Dux repeated her concert, she caused the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy to exclaim of Strauss...
...learned to expect in the past-a dividend, the first since 1926. Armour's earnings were up from $9,349,000 in fiscal 1935 to $10,239,000 in fiscal 1936. On sales of $82,000,000, up 12%, John Morrell & Co.. fifth largest U. S. packer, showed a profit of $619,000, nearly twice the 1935 figure...
During the past dozen years Swift & Co., largest U. S. meat packer, has bought up 20 small packing houses. Last week Swift bought out its 21st little competitor...
Before he died insolvent in London in 1927, Jonathan Ogden Armour sold to his wife for $1,500,000 a few stock certificates in an unknown company called Universal Oil Products. The Chicago meat packer had backed the little company because it controlled an oil-cracking process developed by that appropriately-named inventor, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. After her husband's death Lolita Sheldon Armour offered her 400 shares of Universal Oil to the Armour creditors, who scorned them. Four years later the Widow Armour, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs and a handful of other stockholders sold out to a group...
Before Phillips celebrated what it was pleased to call its "Third-of-a-Century" anniversary last year, the company was primarily a vegetable packer with soup as a sideline. Publicity was largely confined to the personal activities of Colonel Phillips, who is a sedulous hunter, a determined Republican and a firm believer in the virtues of Horatio Alger. On one occasion when a Texas friend lost his favorite dog, Colonel Phillips dispatched a "blue-blooded" Irish setter to replace the loss, shipping the animal in a special plane piloted by "America's Flying Stenographer." Even better publicized...