Working frantically, they struck a new deal and signed with their new investor by noon that same day.

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Noon: That explosion you just heard is the Noon Day Gun being fired atop Signal Hill.

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Ackman began to speak around noon, countering claims made by Icahn a day before on a radio show that hit at his recent Herbalife short.

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