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Rose Cook Small was a businesswoman who built Bluebird Foods Inc. into the largest meat-processing business in the United States.〔(Rose Cook Small ), Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans website, accessed January 19, 2009〕 Rose Small was born and raised in Camden, New Jersey, one of six children. She sold produce on the street as a child to help support her family, and she dropped out of school before finishing the tenth grade.〔George Shinn, ''(Miracle Of Motivation )'', ISBN 81-7108-015-4, ISBN 978-81-7108-015-1. Page 156〕 She married Harry Cook at age 16. In 1933, when she was 21 years old, she and her husband opened a meat market. The business was a success, and the couple opened a second store and a meat packing house in 1936. The new store was destroyed by fire in 1937, and Cook used her engagement and wedding rings as collateral for a loan to rebuild it. With the loan, the couple established Bluebird, Inc., and reopened the store in 1940. Her husband died in 1950, and Rose continued to operate the business, learning all facets of meat packing and processing.〔〔 She remarried in 1960, taking the name of Small. By 1963, Bluebird had moved to a larger facility. The company went public in 1968, by which time it was shipping two million pounds of meat per week. Over the following decade, Small acquired three more meat packing businesses, making Bluebird the largest meat-processing business in the United States.〔 Companies acquired or owned by Bluebird included Mid-South Packers, Agar Packing Company, Patrick Cudahy Packing Company, and DAK, Inc.〔Robert W. Rogers (1984), ( A HISTORY OF THE MEAT PACKING AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY IN MISSISSIPPI ), Mississippi State University, originally web-posted at http://www.msstate.edu/dept/ads/Faculty/history.html, retrieved on Hattiesburg History website, January 19, 2009〕 In 1980 she sold the business and retired.〔 In 1973, ''Fortune'' listed Small as one of just 11 women among the United States' 6,500 highest-paid corporate officers and directors, then defined by an annual pay level of $30,000 or more.〔(Tillie Lewis among top-earning women ), ''Lodi News-Sentinel'', March 26, 1973〕 She was a 1977 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award of the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rose Cook Small」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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