Word: beech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore, for example, TIME'S man is Ed Young, city editor of the Baltimore Sun. In Minneapolis, he is Arnold Aslakson, city editor of the Cowles brothers' Daily Times. Gould Beech represents us in Montgomery, where he is chief editorial writer of The Advertiser-while Pulitzer Citation Winner Clayton Fritchey of the Press covers Cleveland...
...that they anted up hard cash to back their optimism, pushed stock prices to the highest level since early March. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.64 points to 104.52; even the lowly utilities edged forward. Gains of the week: Bethlehem Steel, 2¼ points; Allied Chemical, 7½; Beech-Nut, 6½; Eastman Kodak, 5¼; American Telephone, 3⅝; Westinghouse, 3⅜; General Motors, 1⅝; Singer Sewing Machine, 10¼; Philip Morris...
...trips to Washington. In January he got a juicy $18,514,613 War Department contract for "transitional trainers." Since Globe had no suitable plane of its own, Kennedy arranged to make Beechcraft trainers under special license. Globe also snagged a $400,000 contract to make fins and stabilizers for Beech Aircraft-Beech providing all materials...
...form of a 13-second "singing spot" transcription, the first of these commercials will come at 4:45 o'clock, on the daily "Swing Out" program. The contract runs for 13 weeks, and is sponsored by the Beech-Nut chewing gum concern...
Another munitions-maker, Jack & Heintz, Inc. of Cleveland, also paid a remarkable bonus last week: $650,000 to 800 employes. J. & H., like Beech, is no ordinary plant. Started a year ago by ex-union business agent William S. Jack, 53, it already has $20,000,000 in Government orders, mostly for aircraft starter assemblies. All employes are called "associates." They punch no time clocks, get monthly bonuses averaging $30, free coffee, jazz music four hours daily, free hamburgers every Wednesday, will soon get free grub from a company cafeteria...