Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlas who hopes to push World to a top place in the reprint business is small, owlish, President Benjamin D. Zevin, 44. A New Yorker and ex-advertising man, Ben Zevin got into the book business by marriage, into mass distribution of reprints by pondering on old jokes...
...Owner Hilton planned to rejuvenate the old gaffer. As in his other purchases (TIME, Feb. 19), the cash for the Palmer deal was not all Hilton's. First National Bank of Chicago put up $11,000,000. A syndicate composed of Atlas Corp., City Investing Co., Los Angeles friends Frank Freeman and Willard Keith, and other friends in Chicago and Texas put up another $8,000,000. But brisk Mr. Hilton will run things, expects to do well. Said he with satisfaction: "At the price, we got a very good...
...Chairman Harold Boeschenstein to the presidency of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Co. WPB has set up an employment agency to help place smaller fry, has found industry eager to snap them up. Cap Krug has been offered a job with Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., was rumored to be dickering with Atlas Corp., but he has not yet decided what he will do. "I'm as obsolete as a machine gun," said Cap Krug...
...quick succession he bought up several small orange-juice companies, started the California Seafood Co. (and put his father in as president), became principal owner of the Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co. When he got Hunt, he immediately expanded it by adding the dozen small food-packing plants he had cautiously bought up over a ten-year period. In this way he got expansion without the risk of launching new products...
...Brown Hair, in her honor; and Old Black Joe, celebrating the McDowell family butler. For $15 Foster sold the performing rights to his greatest-selling song, Old Folks at Home. It started as Way Down Upon de Pedee Ribber but Stephen, not liking the sound of that, consulted an atlas and discovered Florida's Suwannee River. Minstrel Edwin P. Christy even brought the right to list himself as composer. Yet, in all, Stephen's 200 songs earned him some $15,000, which wasn't bad for those days...