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...Provost Marshal in Houston, Tex., strode into the Texas Washer Co.'s plant not long ago and didn't like what he saw. Texas Washer makes fins for Army mortar shells, but Major Dinwiddie could find not one armed guard around its plant. Whereupon Owner Wayne A. Baird grinned at the irate Major, told him to "walk through that door." As Dinwiddie obeyed, Baird pushed a button and every one of Texas Washer's 100-odd workmen dropped his tools, trained a sawed-off shotgun at the startled officer. "Just double duty," said Baird. "Every employe...
Double duty is Wayne Baird's middle name: for more than two years he has been doubling on war work with his friend Anthony R. Engler, owner-manager of Texas Specialty Co., whose tiny plant backs up to Baird's. Elderly Wayne Baird's plant used to turn out small metal parts for oil-field machinery; elderly Anthony Engler's made toys. But in October 1940 they landed a joint $200,000 shell-fin contract which they executed with such success that last month they snagged a new one. This time...
...Vanderbilt 137 ASP 4411 Atkins, C. '46, Dunster K-32 TRO 7681 Aulet, H. B. '45, Winthrop D-42 ELI 2320 Axon, Thomas '44, Leverett D-51 TRO 1439 Ayres, T. R. '45, Winthrop B-42 ELI 2164 B Baer, T. S. '44, Lowell N-24 KIR 2498 Baird, G. P. '46, Leverett I-31 TRO 5925 Baker, W. L. '46, 272 Chestnut St., West Newton BIG 5041 Bander, R. G. '46, Winthrop K-12 ELI 2127 Barkan, Y. A. '43, Leverett H-12 ELI 1219 Batchelor, S. D. '46, Eliot C-12 TRO 2988 Barret, R. L. '46, Leverett...
Stems. In Washington, Mrs. Bruce Baird, wife of a banker, got the better of the silk shortage. Whenever a stocking went to pieces she embroidered a flower on the hole, a stem down...
...Walter Baird Kamp...