Word: crabb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his nickname, Commander Lionel Kenneth ("Buster") Crabb was no great shakes as a surface swimmer; but given a pair of rubber flippers, some goggles and an oxygen tank, he was at home in the murky depths. In 1942 when Italian divers were busily attaching lethal limpet mines to the bottoms of Royal Navy ships at anchor off Gibraltar, Buster Crabb was even busier at the far more dangerous job of removing them. Mustered out of the navy at war's end with the George Medal for heroism, Crabb returned to civilian life as a salesman...
...Financier Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp. bought 93.6% of the voting stock (TIME, May 9, 1949). Young now controls I.D.S.'s $1 billion by the $1,968,000 he put up for the stock at $17 a share. He kept I.D.S.'s President Earl E. Crabb, 69, and its star salesman, Vice President Grady Clark, 50. But he made his own right-hand man, able Lawyer Robert W. Purcell, chairman of I.D.S.'s executive committee, and set him bird-dogging I.D.S.'s investments...