Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Stephen Vincent Benét Litt...
...face of a U. S. clock-General Time Instruments, Inc. Last week for the first time this name appeared on the New York Stock Exchange. As unfamiliar to the average investor as to the average clock owner, GTI is known by its two chief subsidiaries, Western Clock Co. ("Big Ben") and Seth Thomas Clock Co. of Thomaston, Conn. These two old family enterprises were put together in 1930 to form the company which now accounts for one-third of the entire U. S. clock business. Instead of celebrating this union with a stock party for the public, GTI merely swapped...
...idea that clocks could be soldered together instead of riveted, at a great saving. In 1885 he founded Western Clock Co. near his smelter. His competitors called his Westclox line "lead clocks," but they sold faster & faster, and in 1910 Western made clock history by pricing a "Big Ben...
BURNING CITY-Stephen Vincent Benét -Farrar & Rinehart...
With Al Colwell and Ed Ingalls forced out by examinations the Crimson lineup will see Ben Prouty at first base and either Dick Walsh or George Tittmann, both of whom pitched Saturday, starting on the mound. Jim Sullivan will fill in the outfield...