Word: brickyards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This direct approach has always made sense to Carrol Shanks. To get himself through school, he worked as a pipe fitter's helper, as a laborer in a brickyard, once bummed his way halfway across the U.S. in a freight car, taking odd jobs. He got an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1925, was hired by Prudential to help reorganize the bankrupt railroads in which the company had investments. Shanks later took over the job of employee relations, did so well that he was made executive vice president. He was made president of Prudential...