Word: brill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, Howard Hughes's aircraft plant, then took on the presidency of Detroit's money-losing Gar Wood Industries, Inc. Three years ago, after Gar Wood was in the black, Perelle took on his toughest challenge. He became president of Philadelphia's money-losing ACF-Brill Co., which makes buses...
Undertaker Needed. Business was so bad that the plant was about to be shut down; in Perelle's first year, Brill lost $2.1 million. "All the place needed," says Perelle, a cocky bantam (5 ft. 6 in.) who never hesitates to crow over his own accomplishments, "was an undertaker." Perelle quickly found out what was wrong. For one thing, Brill did not even have an assembly line. Buses were built in one spot, had to be lifted over incompleted ones when finished...
...corridors of Tin Pan Alley's Pentagon-the Brill Building, on Broadway-oldtime songwriters are taking it big. A novice at the trade has written a catchy song called Snowflakes, Guy Lombardo has recorded it for Decca, and song sheets and records are selling in a flurry. The successful tunesmith: a nine-year-old girl from Brooklyn, a fourth-grader who doesn't even know Billboard from Variety...
...work camps where immigrants are sent after their medical isolation, the complaints take the tune and pitch of national origins. In one camp of 250 tin huts at the edge of a fertile valley, Rachel Brill, a Rumanian woman, complained about the treatment given her son-in-law, Michael. Michael had degraded himself, was earning his living by building a house. (She omitted to say that his family would get the house.) "Imagine," she wailed in singsong Yiddish, "Michael, a shopkeeper, working with his hands! It would never happen in Rumania. What a country this is! There is nothing...
...Among them: Occidental Life Insurance Co., Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Avco Manufacturing Corp., Philadelphia Co., Standard Gas & Electric, Duquesne Light Co., ACF-Brill Motors, Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd., Republic Steel Corp., Washington's Carlton and Wardman Park hotels...