The newest trade territory of McCormick & Co., Inc., largest wholesale spice dealers in the U.S., was beginning to sprout orders. Six ex-G.I.s sent into the rich Chicago area early this month had hired more World War II vets, and the whole crew was hot after new business.
Back in Baltimore, Charles Perry McCormick, tweedy, confident, 50-year-old president of McC & Co., read their reports in the Olde English decor of the firm's head office, and was happy. Reasons : 1) after five years of war, spice shipments were on the move again; 2) the firm's sales of Bee Brand...
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