Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since World War II began, such emergencies have become routine for Philadelphia's National Foam System, Inc. Its stocky, energetic president, Fisher Longstreth Boyd, 57, rolls out of bed in the bleaker hours like any fireman to dispatch his fire-fighting foam, which the Navy calls "bean soup," to fight fires around the globe...
...Tricks. Back in 1821 the first fire fighter in the family, James Boyd, invented the first rubber-lined cotton hose to replace the riveted leather hose then in use. He proudly received a patent signed by President James Monroe himself. Ever since, the Boyds have been inventing and manufacturing equipment to fight fires. To learn the tricks, unbookish Mr. Boyd left the University of Pennsylvania (he was having too much fun to bother about graduating anyway), and went to work in his father's businesses, James Boyd & Brother, and National Fire Protection Co. He decided to think...
Although such foams had been in use for 50 years, Boyd thought he could invent a better one-and did. To manufacture and sell it, he formed National Foam, soon was doing a tidy worldwide business selling foam and equipment to protect oilfields and refineries in Ploesti, Hamburg, Tokyo, Yokohama. Later, aided by his chemistry-smart vice president, George Gordon Urquhart, he turned a second trick: creation from soybeans of a new super-efficient foam, which he called Aer-O-Foam...
Before enlisting, the 52-year-old commandant, who makes his home in Boston, was a partner in the law firm of Gaston, Snow, Hunt, Rice, and Boyd, and held-several insurance executive posts. Born in Paris, Colonel Howard attended Groton School, came to Harvard, and while he was finishing Law School, the war broke out. As a member of the Harvard Regiment, he was commissioned a captain in the Infantry and sent to France in a machine-gun outfit. The Army issued him his discharge papers in February...
...tarradiddle. Actually the Adams papers are owned and managed by the Adams Manuscript Trust. MacLeish negotiated for the loan of the Declaration through the Massachusetts Historical Society. It is in John Adams' hand, not Jefferson's. It was insured for $5,000, taken to Washington by Julian Boyd, Princeton University librarian, accompanied by a Library of Congress guard. There was no correspondence between MacLeish and the Adams family. There was no penny postcard, no $25 insurance-in fact, until Dixon made one, no story...