Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot of 52nd Street, where the Dead End Kids of Sidney Kingsley's play once hung out, is the palatial River House (duplexes and triplexes at $4,500 to $12,000). Among the well-heeled tenants: Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium and his wife, Jacqueline Cochran; newswriter and lecturer Quentin Reynolds. On nearby Sutton Place lives Heiress Anne Morgan...
...heavy handed settlement of industrial dissension. The problems is not one to be resolved over night, and when the solution is found it will be in the sphere of labor-management cooperation. Labor is still smarting from the searing humiliation of years of shoddy treatment. Like a Charles Atlas alumnus it is flaunting its new-found power; while management has not yet realized the full potentialities of accepting labor as a responsible and equal partner...
When the Nov. 23 issue of Atlas Corp.'s Liberty appeared on U.S. newsstands last week, its chief feature was not editorial but a whopping 16-page ad, largest ever run in a national weekly. The ad: Lionel Corp.'s entire Christmas catalogue of toy electric trains...
Hulking, whisper-voiced Sherman Hoar Bowles, 56, is a big man in Springfield. Mass. As lantern-jawed as his cousin Chester, he is a successful publisher, the head of Atlas Tack Corp., a real-estate operator, a dabbler in airlines-and a man who thrives on trouble. He has been sued by the Treasury for gold-hoarding, pursued by squads of tax collectors, stalked by labor unions. All have found him a baffling adversary, but an affable...
...last week came from Buffalo, where three tuberculosis societies held a joint convention.* Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute had at last discovered a method of cultivating TB bacteria, simply and quickly, in test tubes. The basis of Dubos' method is a synthetic detergent made by Atlas Powder Co. (which calls it "Tween 80") for use in cosmetics. Doctors hailed the discovery as the greatest contribution to TB research since Robert Koch first isolated the germ itself...