Word: bement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine tool industry, which, like aircraft, averages only $200,000,000 a year of business is getting 20% of its domestic orders from U. S. arms spending and 50% from exports (practically all arms). One of the industry's most promising war babies, Niles-Bement-Pond Co., which has an order backlog of $2,200,000 (big for it but a trifle in the national economy) was meanwhile going in the market for eleven times its 1938 earnings, while investors priced ordinary market leader Chrysler at 16 times 1938 earnings...
...graduates who wish to take advantage of the savings offered by going on the special train. Since sleeper and pullman accomodations are necessary, however, the cost is still high, and the expense was given as the reason that not many undergraduates took advantage of the offer by Edward D. Bement '08 who is in charge of the trip...
...management of the train is in the hands of Edward D. Bement '08. Members of the band will go on that train as well as 37 club members and 25 others who have already signed up. The special price was contingent upon 150 signing up, but this mark has already been reached...
...Governor Herbert H. Lehman returned from watching his 18-year-old son Peter Gerald Lehman graduate from Deerfield (Mass.) Academy, U. S. Ambassador to Russia William C. Bullitt landed in Manhattan on his way to watch his 12-year-old daughter Anne Moen Bullitt graduate from The Bement School, also in Deerfield...
...airplane engines. Fact is, Pratt & Whitney's big Hartford, Conn, plants make no engines at all. The company is one of the leading U. S. manufacturers of precision machine tools and manufacturing instruments.* Moreover, Pratt & Whitney is not an independent concern but the principal asset of Niles-Bement-Pond Co. Last week Niles-Bement-Pond's principal asset was an island in flood waters, but that dampened not a whit the desire of Chairman Edward A. Deeds for a machinery merger. Expansive Chairman Deeds, who is also chairman of National Cash Register, proposed to unite Pratt & Whitney with...