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...quit Colgate to take a job as a construction laborer, did a stint as a blacksmith's apprentice before joining his father's furniture company. In 1933, when the furniture industry's average loss was 14? on the sales dollar, Sligh decided to start a company of his own. With a partner and $14,000 capital, he astounded the industry by turning a profit the first year, has never since recorded a loss. Two months ago, when the A.F.L. Upholsterers International Union tried to organize one of his companies, he called a meeting of employees, and turned...
Starting with what he later described as "a one-horse shop-one Negro and one mule," Ingalls built his blacksmith and forging business into Alabama's Ingalls Iron Works, biggest independent steel fabricator in the South. He branched out into shipbuilding, and wartime orders built his Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. of Pascagoula, Miss, into the largest shipyard on the Gulf Coast. Last year the combined enterprises grossed more than...
Take for example the patriarchial hero of "East of Eden," Samuel Hamilton. Talented as a blacksmith and inventor, Samuel also "had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul...
...peace, hope to get on the ballot in 30 states, but admit that New York looks like the only sure bet. They plan to stage a five-day peace conference this month at Childersburg, Ala., the feature of which will be the beating of swords into plowshares. From a blacksmith, Bishop Tomlinson recently took lessons in sword-into-plowshare-beating and has been practising the art regularly in his Queens Village, N.Y. home...
...Detroit one day in 1930, a partnership was formed between an ex-blacksmith and a mechanic. The blacksmith was Fred Fisher of the famed Fisher brothers; the mechanic was Harry Franklin Vickers, 31, who had invented a hydraulic steering device for autos. Fisher wanted to make the gadget, but he was 20 years ahead of his time; no automaker would...