When George Deen returned from service abroad in World War II, his father, sales manager at the famed Armour and Co. in the Stockyards, invited his son to come work there.
However, Edgar Deen — soon to be a three-term Fort Worth mayor — encouraged George to start his own business, believing the economy was about to shoot into the sky like the very best put-together bottle rocket.
Edgar Deen was right…