People: People, Nov. 8, 1943

Men of Substance

Laurance & Lester Armour and Joseph M. Cudahy got gouged by their Chicago corner butchers, according to OPA. Investigators of violated price ceilings reported that the Armours had paid 10¢ a Ib. too much for hamburger and Cudahy 8¢ too much for sirloin.

John Jacob Astor, assisted by his chauffeur, whisked a piglet to a swank Manhattan pet hospital from the Astor farm in Basking Ridge, N.J. Hospital authorities soon told the press that the patient, Silvia by name, was improving. Her trouble: undernourishment (probably as a member of too large...

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