Business & Finance: Chicago Changes

Last Armour. Since the big white Rolls-Royce of J. Ogden Armour disappeared from the boulevards of Chicago, and his fortunes crashed and he died in London, the cycle of his family has swung low, then started up again. Last month his widow realized handsomely on one of his characteristic plunges, an investment in the oil-cracking process of Inventor Carbon Petroleum Dubbs (TIME, Jan. 21). And last month the Supreme Court released Chicago packers from the consent decree of 1920 by which they were obliged to restrict themselves to the meat business despite competition...

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