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...WILL WORTHINGTON...
...united many of its independent accounting and engineering offices in central headquarters, reduced the number of its regional sales offices from 53 to 28, and ordered all salesmen to sell its full range of 10,000 kinds of steel instead of only a limited number. Says President Leslie B. Worthington: "It was so obvious that we could improve our effort by bringing together these divisions...
...businessman, was recruited 22 years ago from the company's law firm, White & Case, and today is in charge of its relations with Washington and with stockholders. Finance Committee Chairman Robert C. Tyson, 58, a cool accountant who came from Price, Waterhouse, looks after the money. Leslie Worthington, 61, an ebullient salesman who was lifted several ranks to the presidency in 1959, runs day-to-day operations. Steelmen and securities analysts consider Blough and Tyson to be adequate specialists, rate Worthington as the most imaginative and popular of the three. "In sum," says one Pittsburgh steel executive...
...earned from short selling barrels of pork in the Civil War, helped make Chicago the hog butcher for the world. Big-city slaughterhouses, geared to seasonal rushes and stretches of idleness, have been replaced by busy little "country" abattoirs closer to such cattle towns as West Point, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Meanwhile, since supermarkets buy out of Chicago and a few large centers, Armour has steadily closed down a quarter of the distributing plants that it once needed across the U.S. to serve 250,000 corner groceries. With farmers finding increasingly better ways to raise meat animals, Armour...
...John Jr., 34, in 1960, and young Cowles seems more than competent to keep the paper where it likes to be: a step or two ahead of the whole state. Indeed, the Tribune continues to serve as a Minnesota model for good journalism. Says Publisher. Vernon Vance of the Worthington Daily Globe: "Local dailies have had to raise their standards to stay in business...