Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beaver Boy. The new plant will help Baker to close the gap in his 26-year race to overtake Sewell Avery's giant U.S. Gypsum Co. In that race, Baker has already turned in a spring-legged performance. He quit Tennessee's small Carson-Newman Baptist college after two years, later started selling once-famed "Beaverboard" in the South for the old Beaver Co., rose to sales manager...
...Beaver-busy, Baker moved on to Manhattan, was soon vice-president of a credit company. In 1925, when two former Beaver associates came to him with options on rich gypsum ores* near Buffalo, the three teamed up to form National Gypsum, and buck U.S. Gypsum, which then had a virtual monopoly on wallboard. They had $150,000 in capital, and figured that they needed $2,000,000. Baker raised it in four months by sending his salesmen out to sell stock instead of wallboard. In 1926, with a total of 57 employees, he began mining the gypsum and turning...
Headed by John Marshall who covered the nets in yesterday's game, the new team hopes to play Winsor, Milton, Beaver, Wellesley, and any other team that wants competition. Most of the members have had experience on the ice hockey team...
...chief casualty of the new labels is that old standby, the rabbit, which for years has traveled under a host of now illegal pseudonyms. Among them: Arctic seal, Baltic leopard, Belgium beaver, bluerette, castorette, chinchillette, erminette, French sable, Galland squirrel, marmotine, minkony, moline, nutriette and twin beaver. Maximum penalty for mislabeling: $5,000 fine and a year in jail...
Most unusual of the spot assignments was a request by the Museum of Comparative Zoology for a man to clean out a coffin at $1 an hour. Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill hired a babysitter for two ponies through the office, while the cafeteria in Fenway Park asked for an office manager, offering an extra dollar for double-headers...