Word: wesson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Norton Simon, the California millionaire who built an empire out of tomato paste, not only collects companies (among the many: Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry and Wheeling Steel) but also shuffles them and their management like so many cards. Last week he was shuffling for all he was worth. First, he announced that he was relinquishing the post of board chairman of Wheeling Steel, which he has held since Hunt Foods acquired a major interest in the West Virginia steel firm in 1964. Next, in an unrelated move, he arranged the appointment of Colgate-Palmolive Executive Vice President David...
...Remington bolt-action rifle with a 4-power Leupold telescopic sight (with which, experts say, a halfway decent shot can consistently hit a 6½-in. circle from 300 yds.), a 35-mm. Remington rifle, a 9-mm. Luger pistol, a Galesi-Brescia pistol and a .357 Smith & Wesson Magnum revolver. At home, he left three more rifles, two derringers...
...then sued to recover the weapon from federal authorities. In a Dallas courtroom, less than a mile from the stretch of road where the President was killed, U.S. Judge Joe E. Estes last week awarded the Federal Government permanent custody of the assassination rifle and the .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolver with which Oswald killed Policeman J. D. Tippit. Both weapons, said the U.S. Justice Department, will thus be preserved as relics of "evidentiary and historical significance...
...neared the beach, he saw a group of men watching him. "One looked like a kid," he recalled. "I actually remember saying hello." Gunfire from the beach told him it was time to say goodbye. Huggins swam seaward, firing an occasional round from his waterlogged Smith & Wesson .38 to keep the snipers low. Then he saw two swimmers trying to outflank him from the north. "I squeezed off a couple at them, but I missed," he lamented later...
Unable to buy more stock because of skyrocketing prices, Simon turned around and sold Ohio's share for a $2,800,000 profit. He put his oil profits into cottonseed oil, in 1946 acquired New Orleans' Wesson Oil for $76 mil lion. He quickly doubled its size, strengthened its marketing and distribution systems...