Word: beane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founder's sons until 1929, when Walter White was killed in an automobile accident. Coca-Cola's Robert W. Woodruff then stepped in but soon found commuting between Coca-Cola offices in Atlanta and White's offices in Cleveland too strenuous. After Ashton G. Bean was installed as president, White went to the altar with Studebaker, but a 3% stockholders' minority was unable to hold its peace forever, and the union was never solemnized. Upshot was the Studebaker receivership, the Studebaker-Pierce...
Food Machinery started humbly in 1884 when Maine-born Californian John Bean invented the first hand spray pump, designed to battle the San Jose scale.* Spray pumps grew bigger, with higher pressures, became power driven, resulted in the manufacture of turbine pumps used in irrigating farms. Now turbine pumps are used in mines and tunnels...
Since Food Machinery's Founder Bean was no businessman, his son-in-law David Christian Crummey looked after profit-&-loss. Present head of the company is John David Crummey, David Christian's son, who at 57 has been a Methodist Sunday School teacher for 41 years and has a son studying for the Methodist ministry. Mr. Crummey lives on his pear orchard, near San Jose, is installing an employes' playground with swimming pool and dance floor...
...stage, the Elida Ballet hits a new high in clever and well-directed routines. They can be compared, not unfavorably, to the Rockettes of New York and this weeks sets also deserve high praise. A Mexican singer, whose microphone technique reminds one of a jumping bean and a clever pair of eccentric dancers fill out the bill, which, we regret to say, is not up to the Metropolitan standard...
...election followed a debate and discussion meeting. In the formal debate Richard A Solomen started the question: "Resolved, that the United States should join in all League measures against Italy." Morgan O'B. Preston was the other speaker for the affirmative. Daniel S. Gilmore and Robert Bean were the speakers for the negative. The affirmative...