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Swift last week also saw the finishing touches being applied to a meat matter which had caused the firm considerably more cogitation than the Arnold deal. Offered for sale by underwriters, headed by Boston's Jackson & Curtis, was $10,000,000 worth of bonds and stocks in United Stockyards Corp., a new corporate entity which last September purchased Swift's large interests in one Canadian, seven U. S. stockyards. In 1920, to avoid Government prosecution under anti-trust laws, Swift and the other big packers signed "consent decrees" pledging themselves to get rid of stockyard holdings. Wilson...
...Would it be a Federal crime," asked one, "to steal a cow from a licensed stockyard...
...rushers are Captain Pug Lund, who was playing his final game in the home stadium last week; Julius Alfonse, who has averaged 10 yd. every time he has been given the ball this season; and the hero of Minnesota's "Hook 'Em Cow" club, Fullback Stanislaus Clarence ("Stockyard Stan") Kostka...
...Hook 'Em Cows" are affluent, football-mad livestock commission merchants and packers of the Twin Cities. Since Stan Kostka comes from a little farm near South St. Paul, the stockyard centre of Minnesota, and has two brothers working in the stockyards, he has a natural claim to "Hook 'Em Cow" loyalty. He scored none of Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games...
...give me a hold on the company." Frederick Henry Prince has a reputation for remembering his enemies.* Armour &; Co. has been a Prince enemy of long standing. Chicago last week recalled an old story that the late J. Ogden Armour had once bought secretly in Mr. Prince's stockyards. That was enough to pique Mr. Prince but Mr. Armour had then loudly (and quite truthfully) denied that his packing company owned a share in any stockyard. Then a small packer had challenged the legality of a yardage charge of 12? a head on hogs, 25? a head on cattle...