Word: alton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gloria Swanson, former cinema great, John Alton, MGM Cameraman, and Jean R. Debrix, eminent French movie critic were among the better known speakers...
...does once each year, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s stooped, bushy-browed President Leroy Alton Lincoln last week invited reporters to discuss his company's annual report over lunch in his leather-paneled executive dining room. As boss of the world's biggest life insurance company, he had some impressive figures to give them. In 1949, said Lincoln, Metropolitan had boosted its assets 6% to a mammoth $9.7 billion. It had not yet overtaken the world's biggest corporation-American Telephone & Telegraph, whose assets total $10.8 billion...
...Both houses of the Mississippi legislature deplored the murders of the Negro children, asked speedy prosecution of the criminals. Mayor Alton Massey of Kosciusko proclaimed a "Thomas Harris Day," urged donations of money for the family. Kosciusko's outraged white citizens agreed to hire an attorney to assist in the prosecution of Turner and the Whitt brothers...
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...