Word: alton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power Hitter. The tight-lipped brothers are masters of a tightly run empire with an estimated net worth in excess of $65 million. Its citadel is the sprawling Western Cartridge Co. at East Alton, Ill., on the Mississippi bluffs just north of St. Louis. This huge plant grew out of a blasting-powder business which their father, Franklin, founded...
Franklin had worked his way through Cornell by repairing farm machinery and playing professional baseball (for Toledo, where his batting average of .402 made him the American Association's best hitter in 1885). Settling in East Alton, Franklin began making and selling black powder to Illinois coal mines. World War I boomed his tidy company into big business, and that was when John started his training...
When today's shooting is over, head cameraman John Alton will be the second speaker in Ivy Films' "special features" series tonight. Alton will discuss "Film Photography" in Leverett Junior Common Room in a 7:30 p.m. meeting open to all men and women...
...that shock and infection have been brought under control by science, thromboembolism* has replaced them as the principal cause of death after operations, reported Dr. Alton Ochsner of Tulane. Because of the clotting speedup, he said, the "almost routine administration of antibiotics to all hospital patients" has become a major factor in the increase in cases of thromboembolism...
Also in the Yard today will be Frank Taylor, producer, John Sturgess, director, and John Alton, cameraman. Taylor arrived at Harvard Saturday to complete pre-shooting arrangements with Yard police and the University...