Word: alton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alton (Ill.) Boxboard Co. decided to try the idea to the tune of a $25,000 advertising budget. Their St. Louis test campaign upped collections 25%. With these results to back him up, Block soon sold the industry on the scheme...
...corporate cousin of Western Cartridge Co.; both are controlled by Olin Corp., bossed by 80-year-old, physically feeble, mentally strong Franklin William Olin. Western Cartridge, reportedly the second-largest privately owned company in the U.S. (first: Ford), daily makes over a million shells at its sprawling East Alton, Ill. plant. Through Western Cartridge, munitions-man Olin also controls New Haven's famed Winchester Repeating Arms Co., likewise busy on defense orders...
Tanyard Street (by Louis D'Alton, produced by Jack Kirkland). In this solemn drama by one of Dublin's Abbey Theatre playwrights, an ardent young Irish Catholic comes home paralyzed after fighting for Franco. One night a bouquet of flowers is mysteriously moved from his bedroom shrine to his bed, and the next morning he is suddenly well. The cure is hailed as a miracle. Thereupon the young man decides to renounce his wife for the priesthood, and she agrees to take the vow of chastity which will allow him to do it, even though...
Cities Service, a $1,068,579,000 aggregation of both oil (60%) and utility (40%) properties, is now run by a smooth, smart powerhouse named W. Alton Jones, for many years Doherty's right-hand man. Served with SEC's integration order in March, its sub-holding company, Cities Service Power & Light, answered with a brief, claiming Section 11 unconstitutional, but came to SEC's hearings nevertheless. Last week, Cities Service men heard an SEC lawyer named Frank Field sound off on what integration means to him. His view: concentrating either on its Colorado or its Ohio...
Divorced. Alton Parker Hall, grandson of Presidential Candidate (1904) Alton B. Parker; by Emmeline Marion Grace Hall, daughter of Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace; after a separation of three years; in Reno...