Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Badgered Brewster Aeronautical Corp. is about to be orphaned again: for the sixth time in two years, it is faced with finding-or accepting-a new management. Reason: even Miracle Man Henry J. Kaiser whom the Navy persuaded to take over Brewster a year ago-without remuneration-could not stand the gaff...
Last week President Kaiser, announcing his resignation, alleged that "the production emergency . . . task has been accomplished." But, since Brewster's Navy Corsair contract is still only one-third completed, some other observations in Kaiser's explanation to stockholders were more pertinent. Fact is that Brewster is in a financial wilderness compounded of 1) Navy allegations of overcharges; 2) Brewster allegations of Navy underpayments; 3) British and Brewster counterclaims on terminated dive-bomber contracts; 4) a strong feeling on the part of Brewster's underprivileged stockholders that everyone has been underpaying them. Besides that, and despite Kaiser...
Spice is added to this interesting bit of rural Americans by cousin Teddy, who believes firmly that he is Theodore Roosevelt at the battle of San Juan Hill. In fact, his military exploits on the stairs of the Brewster mansion (where he labors under the delusion that there are 150 Rough Riders hanging on his word "CHARGE!") probably put to shame all the fighting that occurred around San Juan Hill...
...former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and France William Christian Bullitt; and Army Staff Sergeant Caspar Wistar Barton Townsend, 23, of Philadelphia, a 1942 Yale graduate; in a surprise ceremony at Fort George G. Meade, Md. In October 1943 her father announced her engagement to Marine Lieut. Daniel Baugh Brewster Jr. of Brooklandville, Md. Mr. Bullitt's comment on the marriage: "What...
...Richard K. Schmidt, son of Major General Harry Schmidt, commander of the Fourth Marine Division which spearheaded the northern arm of the invasion; Lieut. Joseph C. Fegan Jr., artillery officer and son of Major General Fegan, commanding officer of Camp Joseph H. Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif.; and Lieut. David A. Brewster, infantry, son of Brigadier General David L. S. Brewster, now on Pacific duty...