MEAT PACKERS' COMBINE
DISSOLUTION TO BE COMPLETED IN TWO YBABS. Washington, December 19. The packers have been given two years in which to complete the dissolution. There woro five controrrcd. and 571 subsidiary concerns, and they had interests in 188 others. Armours, Swift, Cudahy, and Wilson grew within the past fifteen years from !)2 million dollars in worth to 479 millions, and paid 105 millions in dividends in the same period. Their total sales in 1918 amounted to 3200 million dollars,' ami they controlled 22 of the 50 existing American stockyards — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' THE SWIFT COMPANY. New York, December 19. The Chicago correspondent of tho "New York Times".reports that Mr. Louis Swift, president of the Swift Company, has issued a statement in. which ho savs: "Wo have already made a dissolution of onr packing business in Australia and South America."-A us.-N./,. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 7
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144MEAT PACKERS' COMBINE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 7
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