Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moreover, in Harlem, where he owns and operates four businesses (including Sugar Ray's Café), even his friends suspected that the champ had grown soft on easy living. But Sugar Ray, beaten only once in 98 professional fights, proved last week that he still had everything under control...
According to 270-lb. Jim Button, Assistant Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's division of grasshopper control, this is the worst grasshopper season since 1940. But the hoppers are having a tough time; they are being mowed down in their youth by new poisons, new spreading devices and far better organization among their human enemies...
...took 20 Ibs. per acre of old-style bait (bran and sawdust poisoned with arsenic) to control the hoppers. The newest bait (bran poisoned with chlordane or toxaphene) is so much more effective that five Ibs. per acre is enough unless the hoppers are almost full-grown. The biggest plane in use, a DC-3, spreads 20,000 acres every day. Since there are from 35 to 100 hoppers per square yard in the outbreak areas, a single DC-3 can kill several billions daily...
...their annual meeting last week, they felt that something important was out of place. Something was. It was Eversharp's ebullient ex-chairman, Martin Straus. In place of Straus, thick-jowled R. Howard Webster of Montreal, Straus's sworn enemy, was running things. Straus had lost control of the company which, in seven meteoric years, had risen, with the help of razzle-dazzle advertising ("the $64 question"), from a $12,078 deficit to peak sales (1946) of $46 million and a $4.2 million...
Straus's undoing was the ballpoint pen. He entered the market too late with a bad product. Eversharp lost $3.4 million in 1947; its stock fell from 25⅞ to 10¼. In November 1946, Straus had bought control of the Schick injector razor, looking for a cushion against hard times. He got a cushion all right (the razor division helped Eversharp show a $1.2 million profit last year), but there was a big pin in it. The pin was R. Howard Webster. To get the razor company, Straus had to take Webster, a big Schick stockholder, into Eversharp...