Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York University's Hall of Fame were 76 late, famed U. S. citizens. Among them: Author Louisa May Alcott (Little Women); Suffragist Susan Brownell Anthony; Matthew B. Brady, who photographed 3,500 battle and camp scenes of the Civil War; Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President; Stephen Crane, Spanish War correspondent, author (The Red Badge of Courage); President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America; Designer John Fitch who built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey...
...Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included in an exhibition of extinct birds by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, coupled with a warning that, without rigid safeguards, three more North American birds are threatened with imminent annihilation: the trumpeter swan, the whooping crane, the ivory-billed woodpecker...
Highly conscious of its small beginnings, its amazing growth and its venerable traditions is Crane Co. This great plumbing house likes to recall the fact that it was established in Chicago in 1855 as a "Brass & Bell Foundry" with one employe- Richard Teller Crane. It likes to recall that in 1930 it had 20,000 employes, one-fourth of whom had been with the com-pany ten years or more. It likes to use waste space on its printed matter or in display windows for maps showing its 150 branches and factories in the U. S. and Canada...
...years of its history Crane Co. has had only four presidents, three of them Cranes. First was the founder who until his death in 1912 delighted in annoying Chicago socialites by insisting that he was nothing but a plumber. The next two Presidents Crane were his sons, Charles and Richard Jr. Son Charles preferred politics and traveling to plumbing and by appointment of President Wilson in 1920 became U. S. Minister to China shortly after his own son had become first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. Son Richard also liked traveling but liked it best when he was roving...
...past four years Crane's head has been John B. Berryman, an oldtime vice president. Last week Mr. Berryman moved up to board chairman, making way for what he called "an extremely young man"-Charles Beach Nolte, 49. "I've reached a very old age." explained the ruddy, strapping master plumber...