Tiny Brick House

Only stray bricks and wooden boards remained where Meghan Panu's house once stood. This was odd, because there hadn't been a fire. Or an earthquake. No, the young woman's home had been wheeled away on the trailer where it rested outside a St. Louis warehouse for home remodeling supplies.

After weeks of public grandstanding and private haggling, the biggest consumer-products takeover in history was ultimately decided by a handful of men in a tiny brick house on a one-lane street in London.

Only stray bricks and wooden boards remained where Meghan Panu's house once stood. This was odd, because there hadn't been a fire. Or an earthquake. No, the young woman's home had been wheeled away on the trailer where it rested outside a St. Louis warehouse for home remodeling supplies.

After weeks of public grandstanding and private haggling, the biggest consumer-products takeover in history was ultimately decided by a handful of men in a tiny brick house on a one-lane street in London.