Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ended, Republican candidates for the Senate and House-and their state and county chairmen-will remember the efforts of Richard Nixon. In his decade of service as an unashamed Republican working for the principles that have become the basic philosophy of the Eisenhower Administration, he has built close, personal friendships deep in the party organization all over the U.S. On a much broader scope, he has this year shown that there is a clear, direct line of communication between him and the American people. These achievements, coupled with the unprecedented importance he has given the vice-presidency, promise Richard Nixon...
...years the Dresser company has been farsighted enough to acquire the best and newest equipment that the oil world has to offer. When Mallon stepped into the presidency of Dresser in 1929, it produced only flexible couplings for plain-end pipes, had $5,800,000 in sales. Mallon built up Dresser into a company that could serve the entire gas and oil industry. In 1937 Dresser bought its first subsidiary company, Clark Bros, (angle compressors), and also got its vice president, John B. O'Connor, in the bargain. Three years later Dresser added centrifugal pumps to its growing list...
...Dresser had entered the building field with Ideco, which built the nation's tallest man-made structure, a 1,572-ft. TV tower in Oklahoma City. In quick succession, Dresser took on Roots-Connersville's rotary positive blowers, and Security Engineering's rock bits and reamers. By 1948 Dresser had taken seven separate companies under its wing, increased its net sales to $108,600,000. Said Mallon: "When we buy a company, we have to consider if the company would be better off in the Dresser family. Would Dresser itself be better, not just bigger, for having...
...Night Store. A round-the-clock store, serviced by vending machines, was opened by the Grand Union chain as part of its new supermarket in East Paterson, N.J. The devices, built into the front wall of the store, dispense milk, eggs, bread, margarine, frozen fish and meat, coffee, tea, cold cuts, make change for shoppers. Cost: $800 to $1,600 per machine...
Kitchen Do-It-All. Cincinnati's Nu-Tone is distributing an all-in-one kitchen gadget that operates a food-mixer, 6-speed blender, juicer and knife-sharpener off a one-fifth horsepower motor built into the countertop. Price...