Word: calders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago had President Alexander ("Sandy") Calder of Union Bag & Paper Corp. asked his stockholders to split their stock four-for-one, they probably would have balked. The price of their shares was down to $5 and such a split would have reduced their stock certificates to shinplasters. But last week his stockholders had only applause for Sandy Calder. They gladly voted to split their stock four-for-one and their new stock was traded at prices upwards of $18, for in five years Recovery and Sandy Calder-but mostly Mr. Calder-had boosted the value of their shares around...
...Sandy Calder is spectacularly lucky. At golf for example, he has five times made holes in one, once with his opening shot in a tournament at Great Barrington, Mass, before a gallery of 300. Sandy Calder's luck is not limited to golf-he has made a huge success out of everything he has touched. Fourth of six brothers, he was born in New York City 51 years ago. At 25 he went to work as a salesman in the wood pulp & paper firm of Perkins-Goodwin Co. where his older brother Lou already had a job. Three years...
Next year, when the presidency fell vacant, the disgruntled directors put Salesman Sandy Calder in the job on six-months' probation. He cut salaries and expenses $100,000 at once, shifted to imported pulp, at year's end had a neat $112,500 profit. A price war next year produced a deficit again, but since then Union has enjoyed steady profits. However, to take the drastic steps needed to catch up with the bag revolution, Sandy Calder needed control of the company. He and Brother Lou Calder, now president of Perkins-Goodwin, bought Union common stock steadily...
That the seventh Pleiad is indeed a variable star was reported last week by Harvard Observatory. The cluster is draped in a veil of diffuse nebulosity which may vary the brightness of certain stars by interposing streamers of varying thicknesses. Observations by Dr. William Alexander Calder disclosed that in a year the seventh Pleiad, now called Pleïone, had diminished by one-sixth of a magnitude in brightness. It cannot have been decreasing for very long at this rate, otherwise it would have been the brightest star in the sky less than a half century ago. But the fact...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., sailing near the Roosevelt estate at Campobello Island, were caught in a calm. Caretaker Franklin Calder put out from shore in a motorboat, towed them back. Two days later they sailed from Quebec on the Empress of Britain for a European honeymoon...