Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next week, if Canada's 12,500,000 prayers are answered, Barbara Ann will wear the crown of an Olympic champion. No Canadian from Vancouver to Halifax doubted that she would, but it was comforting nevertheless to hear one neutral European judge say: "Scott shows up the others when she merely skates on one foot in a straight line." The last skater to do that was Norway's brassy Sonja Henie, who in 1936 danced off the Olympic ice into a $1,000,000 Hollywood contract...
...free skating, Sonja's showmanship was incomparable. She held crowds, kings and skating judges spellbound. Watching Henie skate did queer things to people: ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany once beckoned her to his box and gave her a diamond stickpin he was wearing; Adolf Hitler presented her with a huge picture of himself in a silver frame, flatteringly inscribed; Benito Mussolini simply said: "I wish I could skate like her." Besides skill and showmanship, Sonja possessed a talent for covering up the few technical mistakes she made...
...next three years the Axelrods wove the Jeffrey Finishing Co., Woonsocket's Lippitt Worsted Mills and Dorlexa Dyeing & Finishing Co. and Pawtucket's Crown Manufacturing Co. into their empire. Last spring they got control of New Bedford's old, famed Wamsutta Mills (sheetings, broadcloths, specialty fabrics). Joe and his dad, who is treasurer, now have 3,150 men & women (including Wamsutta) working for them, and with last week's buy, they reached Joe's goal of integration...
...College. A 15-hour-a-day worker, Joe gets up at 5130 in his home at Newton, Mass., spends his off hours on his 46-ft. cruiser daydreaming up new textile tricks, like "Crown College." To pep up morale in his main Crown plant in Pawtucket, R.I., Joe built glass-enclosed smoking rooms, decorated the plant in cheerful colors, landscaped its lawns, built a playground and baseball diamond. Among New England's grimy, ancient plants it so stood out that workers began calling it Crown College...
...went along with the gag. He was "Prexy," the general manager's office was labeled "Dean," overseers became "professors," lavatories were marked "Boys" and "Girls,"the workers became "students." Then Joe started a real school, with eleven courses in textile technique (one class a week) for Crown workers. Joe's idea was to train workers for the new cost-cutting machines and processes he was constantly installing in his plants. It paid off double; the school became so popular that during the worst of the manpower shortage Joe had more applicants than he could hire...