Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Edward ("Electric Charlie") Wilson, 69, former General Electric Co. president, and wartime defense mobilizer, announced that he will retire next month as board chairman of W. R. Grace & Co. He became a director of Grace in 1952, chairman last year...
...Bacon rolled on a strip of aluminum foil, so that it can be unrolled like tape (Aluminum Co. of America...
...Polyethylene bags for cream, to replace the standard five-gallon steel cans, developed by Illinois' Galva Creamery Co. Shipped in corrugated cardboard cartons, the bags take up only half,as much space as steel cans holding the same amount of cream, are more sanitary. Furthermore, they take up only a fraction of the space when they are returned empty...
...start in Wall Street as a runner. He moved onto the stock exchange's trading floor as a telephone clerk and, in 1936, borrowed $125,000 from friends to buy a seat on the Exchange. He became a broker for the odd-lot firm of Carlisle, Mellick & Co. (now Carlisle &Jacquelin), and in 1945 became a partner in Spear & Leeds. He was elected a Big Board governor...
...Archibald E. King, 51, moved from executive vice president to president of Isthmian Lines Inc., descendant of the old Isthmian Steamship Co. Moving on from president to board chairman is Glenn B. Davis, 64, retired Navy vice admiral who joined the company in 1953. King, a veteran shipping executive, began his career in 1919, while still in high school, as a traffic clerk for Norton, Lilly & Co. He went to New York University, joined Isthmian in 1934 as assistant traffic manager. He moved up fast, became vice president in 1947 and executive vice president five years later...