Word: craned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintains gratis a "bureau of fair play" to collect fares for trusting drivers who fall victim to ruses. It is a sworn enemy of all "rackets." It also aspires to be a "friendly, happy" paper, and for a time gave cabmen the syndicated gladness of the late Dr. Frank Crane...
Because July 4 is a holiday it seems unlikely that a business should celebrate its anniversary on that date. Yet this week in Chicago Crane Co. (valves, plumbing) celebrated its 75th anniversary on July 4.* The business was founded in 1855 by the late Richard Teller Crane. His original small frame building was completed July 3. Enthusiastic impatient, he would not rest on the holiday. Accordingly on July 4 he poured the first metal that went into a Crane Co. casting. Approximately 20,000 employes were last week celebrating that gesture...
Founded on no patent or monopoly, Crane Co. prospered principally because of shrewd selling, economic, efficient manufacturing. Today the company has nine factories in the U. S., Canada, England. It manufactures more than 30,000 items, divided roughly into four categories: plumbing fixtures & supplies, heating equipment & supplies, valves & fittings, steam & water works supplies. The largest selling Crane products are brass, iron, steel valves & fittings, although most famed throughout the land are its much advertised colored bathrooms. The company last year earned...
When the first Richard Teller Crane died he was known as one of Chicago's great developers and industrialists, as traveler and philanthropist. That reputation extended to his five sons, three of whom are now alive, to whom Mr. Crane left his business. Of these Richard Teller Crane Jr. is present president of the company. Of him as of his father it is said that he would rather visit a Crane Co. shop than attend a theatre. He never flies although his wife's brother-in-law is famed flying Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. In his huge Lake...
Another founder's son is Herbert Prentice Crane, inactive director of the company. One of his sons, Charles Richard Crane 2nd, is vice president of the company, may perhaps be the next president...