Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every morning in his 15-room grey stucco house in Cincinnati, McElroy breakfasts on whatever suits his fancy, e.g., bacon & eggs one day, chocolate cake the next ("I figure eating cake in the morning doesn't hurt the waistline"). He is at work before 9-but not always in his office. He spends much of his time seeing the company's big team of "bright young men" and visiting his 35 U.S. plants. One of the most public-spirited businessmen in the U.S., McElroy devotes up to a third of his time to such functions as Community Chest...
...this superselling started in 1837, when British-born William Procter, a candlemaker, and Irish-born James Gamble, a soapmaker, married sisters and went into business together. At the beginning, they peddled their crude soap and candles in a wheelbarrow in Cincinnati, then a frontier town. But as the region grew up, the company prospered. Soon its wares were being shipped by boat to New Orleans, Louisville and Pittsburgh, and gross sales rose to $1,000,000 a year...
...Smoke. Gradually, the Gambles drifted out of company operations;- the Procters, a cool and quick-thinking breed of businessmen, carried on. One day second-generation President William A. Procter was lunching at his club in downtown Cincinnati when a messenger brought word that the factory was on fire, and P. & G.'s vast warehouse supplies of fats and oils were going up in smoke. Instead of rushing to the scene of the disaster, Procter went to the telegraph office, dispatched wires and cables to the oil markets of the world, bought all the oil futures he could. Not only...
Economics, Bridge & Poker. Neil Hosier McElroy was born in Berea, Ohio, on Oct. 30, 1904, and raised in Madisonville, a suburb of Cincinnati, where his father was a high-school physics instructor, his mother a grade-school teacher. It was a strict Methodist household, but father and mother McElroy sensibly decided that if their three sons were to learn the ways of the world, they might as well do so at home. Instead of having their boys hanging around the local pool hall, they installed a pool table of their own. On Sunday evenings the family gathered for a weekly...
...Cincinnati, Rogers Hornsby, baseball's greatest right-hand hitter (lifetime average: .358) and most unpopular manager, was dismissed as manager of the sixth-place Cincinnati Redlegs. It was the fifth such job he has had since leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a world championship...