Word: staley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven years ago Goodnight sold his ranch and buffaloes to Joseph Irving Staley of Wichita Falls, Tex. Mr. Staley made a fortune in oil, reached out into ranching, banking, aviation. Depression has pinched him. Ready cash is precious. The proposed buffalo hunt might realize $75,000. Besides, except in zoos and National Parks, kept buffaloes are an expensive nuisance...
...made president of the company. Although Penick & Ford was almost wrecked by the depression of 1921, 1930 saw its profits at $1,811,348 against 1929's $1,882,441. It is the country's third largest maker of corn products (second: A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Decatur, Ill.). Famed are its Br'er Rabbit Molasses and Vermont Maid Maple Syrup. Son successfully faced Father, was not defeated...