Word: craig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mercy killing is an act similar to ..." murder," argued County Solicitor William H. Craig. "In other words," his colleague, State's Attorney General William L. Phinney, added, "simply because the adjective 'mercy' is inserted before 'killing' does not alter the situation. If a prospective juror took the witness stand and said, 'I have a prejudice and opinion against killing,' certainly that is not in and of itself a basis for disqualification." Judge and lawyers questioned Mrs. English further. "You say you do have some prejudice in your mind against the defendant...
Next day, brawny (6 ft., 195 lbs.) Craig Royer Sheaffer, 52-year-old president of the biggest U.S. pen company, gave stockholders something else to celebrate: the company declared an extra dividend of $1.15 a share on top of its regular quarterly payment of 10?. Although the company's twelve-month sales had sagged 10% from $22 million in the previous year, Penman Sheaffer had been able to boost his previous $2.4 million profit...
...Craig Sheaffer meets regularly with the workers' employees council, gives them the latest sales and profits figures, points out weak spots (e.g., a department's failure to cut scrap waste). "We have no secrets from our employees," says Sheaffer. "We've been able to make them see the reasons for things...
...when, as a ten-year-old, he watched his father, Walter A. Sheaffer, experiment with messy medidne-dropper-filled pens in his Fort Madison jewelry shop. Father Sheaffer got the bright idea of putting the dropper inside, scraped up $35,000 in capital, and in 1913 started his company. Craig, after two years in college, hurried back to the business. In 1921, his father took a big risk. When most pens sold for $2.75, he brought out one for $8.75-with a "lifetime" guarantee. The gamble paid off, and Sheaffer became the No. 1 U.S. penmaker. In 1938 the elder...
...rough going for a while. Parker Pen Co. pushed him out of first place, then Eversharp with its ballpoint eclipsed them both. But Sheaffer brought out its own cheap ballpoint ($1.50) and forged again into first place. Craig Sheaffer expects to stay there, confident that his workers will match the higher bonus with lower costs and higher productivity...