Word: armours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University and the profession, but otherwise the situation is reasonably well in hand. We have been fortunate in securing the services of four distinguished persons as visiting lecturers: Miss Rosemond Tuve of Connecticut College, Mr. Northrup Frye of Toronto, Mr. F. W. Dupee of Columbia, and Mr. Armour Craig of Amherst. They will help repair the deficiencies occasioned by the sabbatical leaves of Professors Brower and Guerard; and as for Professors Levin and Bate and myself, we shall all teach here for half the year. In short, the "poor English major," whose plight you deplore, will not find himself rattling...
...Fred A. Manske, 55, became president of National Gypsum replacing Lewis R. Sanderson, who retired at the age of 65 in accordance with a company rule. Chicago-born Fred Manske, a graduate mechanical engineer (Armour Institute of Technology, '23) is a born go-getter who financed most of his education from a newspaper delivery route and a handbill distribution business, worked as a bill collector at 16. He broke into the industry as sales correspondent for U.S. Gypsum by day, by night studied accounting and marketing at Northwestern University, dabbled in inventions (20 patents). In 1934 Manske moved over...
...manufacturing industries. Last year the average packer's profit on every $1 of sales was 0.85?, compared to food chains' profits of 0.99?. While this was more than double the profit of 1954, it was still well under the 1.6? made by the big four packers (Swift, Armour, Wilson, Cudahy) in their best year, 1947, when farmers also cashed in. For example, Swift & Co.. biggest U.S. packer, netted $23 million last year, compared to $19 million in 1954 and $34 million...
...were all up from 10% to 29%. But California's huge Bank of America, the world's biggest private bank, had the biggest profit of all. It went into 1956 with resources of $9.7 billion, earnings of $66 million, both at all-time peaks. Another record-breaker: Armour & Co., after a slump in 1954, pushed to a $10.1 million profit in 1955 for a 549% gain...
...Tire, Union Oil, etc.), who put up $618,000 for 25,000 shares of American Airlines alone to support the market during the cardiac break, at one point was $163,000 in the hole. ¶John Coleman, 53, head of Adler, Coleman & Co. (53 stock issues, including American Tobacco, Armour, Motorola). ¶Benjamin Einhorn, 48, partner in Astor & Rose, which handles Sperry Rand and 14 other stocks...