Word: peterkins
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Today, Morton is directed from a strikingly modern concrete office building on the Chicago River by Daniel Peterkin Jr., 59, whose father succeeded Joy Morton as the company's president in 1930. Peterkin joined Morton after getting a degree in geology from Princeton, took over as president after his father's death in 1941, when the company's sales were only $12.9 million. Under his aggressive direction, Morton passed its biggest competitor, International Salt, in the mid-'40s, began producing as well as marketing in every region of the country and overseas. In addition...
Died. Julia Mood Peterkin, 80, patrician South Carolina authoress ("I am not a literary person; my career is the plantation"), whose Scarlet Sister Mary, a folk tale of a Negro woman "in a patient struggle with fate," won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; of heart disease; in Orangeburg...