Bulletin Board: 02/00

Purina Mills Reorganizes Purina Mills, Inc. is reorganizing under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, following a downturn in commodity prices and depressed agricultural markets. The company said its…

Chapter 10: Young Turk

It was a beautiful spring morning and the last of western Massachusetts’s snow had melted away. The forsythia was in full bloom, the first daffodils were nodding their yellow heads…

Chapter 9: A Young Team

Wilbur Fenelon Young III and Donald Smith were in the boardroom, sleeves rolled up, deep in conversation. Late afternoon sun filtered through the blinds, casting striped shadows across the advertising…

Chapter 8: Young Blood

Bill Young was thinking. It was 6:30, and he was sitting in his office and playing with a bottle of Absorbine Jr.® by the light of his desk lamp. He’d…

Chapter 7: Young Traditions

Each Sunday, Wilbur F. Young III, who was now running W. F. Young Company, loaded the kids into the station wagon and headed to Mary Ida’s. The children would wear…

Chapter 6: As Young As You Feel

This was still the time she loved the best. Each Sunday afternoon, Mary Ida Young met her daughter Sally at the stable for a ride, rain or shine. They didn’t…

Chapter 5: Young Guns

Harry Caswell listened to the peculiar squeak of his boots as they broke the unshoveled sidewalk’s icy surface. It was 7 p.m. on a cold December evening in 1939, and…

Chapter 4: Young Once

Mary Ida Young heard the birdsongs before she opened her eyes, naming them one by one: the humble robin, a boastful chickadee, a trilling song sparrow, the haunting distant melody…