Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some observers it appeared that the Administration was casually trying to brush off a mere Republican State Governor who persisted in being tiresome about a trivial matter. But the outraged Governor continued to badger and challenge the Federal Government for his full, undiluted, sovereign State's rights. Each side stood stubbornly and firmly on its dignity. But Tom Dewey, who cut his political eyeteeth on just such gang-busting as the Lepke case, seemed to be standing on the firmer legal ground. The next move was up to Washington-and what seemed to be at stake was something bigger...
...Brush who had been handling the company's accounting, was called in to manage...
When Sterling Drug bought Watkins in 1934, Mr. Brush moved to Affiliated Products (Louis Philippe cosmetics). He did such a bang-up job that American Home, looking around for new blood, decided on him. The quickest way to get him was to buy his company...
...Profit. At the time, American Home was still making a fat $2,000,000 a year, but profits had been slipping ominously. New Board Chairman Brush skimmed over the company history, thought he saw the reason. When A.H.P. was formed in 1926, it promptly started buying up smaller companies and boosted profits in the process. When the buying stopped in '31, the profits steadied, then dropped. Mr. Brush's solution: start buying again...
...American Home is about finished buying. It has all the drug com panies it can handle without competing with itself. With a few more food com panies, Alvin Brush can achieve his post war ambition to supply the U.S. citizen's household wants from the cradle to the grave...