Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's foremost armament firms, Vickers Ltd. and Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., sent their joint Board Chairman, sleek, tall General Sir Herbert A. Lawrence. once Chief of Staff of the B. E. F. in France, and their bland, trim, assured General Manager Sir Charles Craven, famed in Mayfair for his mannerism of "talking down to the ruling class." The Chairman of the Royal Commission asked if in Vickers' experience bribery is necessary to obtain armament orders outside of Britain...
Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
State's Armstrong Sirs: Michigan State College, oldest of Land Grant institutions, claims Alumnus Paul Armstrong, General Manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. He entered the Exchange direct from Michigan State in 1915 and not from the University of Michigan as stated on p. 66 of TIME, Dec. 2. ... GLEN 0. STEWART Alumni Secretary East Lansing, Mich...
...California-Arizona crop is marketed by California Fruit Growers Exchange, that famed co-operative is by far the largest factor in the U. S. citrus industry. Last week the 13,500 fruit-growing members were thumbing through the long report presented fortnight ago by General Manager Paul Stuart Armstrong at the Exchange's annual meeting in Los Angeles...
General Manager Armstrong booms the doctrine of advertising when it is needed, not solely when it can be afforded. He can justify his doctrine by the fact that citrus consumption rose through Depression when sale of many other fruits declined. A husky six-footer who entered the Exchange directly after graduation from the University of Michigan (class of 1915), he worked up through the advertising department, helped develop the orange-promoting Sunkist juicer, now urges, among other citrus uses, lemon juice as a hair rinse...