Word: crumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steamships, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific transport empire bossed by Norris Roy Crump, 50, of Montreal, is counting on the new Empress to spearhead a comeback in the Atlantic passenger trade. Before World War II, C.P. was one of the world's biggest shipping firms, with fleets of liners and freighters in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Ten C.P. ships, including an earlier Empress of Britain, were lost in war service. By late 1952, when it was painfully apparent that costs were not going down, a $30 million order was placed for the new Empress of Britain...
...William Christopher Handy, a young bandleader from Florence, Ala., first arrived on Beale Street. Ten years later, Handy and his band were hired to play at political rallies for a young candidate for mayor. As an innovation, Handy wrote a syncopated campaign song, Mister Crump (don't 'low no easy riders here), which became a local sensation. Later, more lyrics were added, the title was changed to Memphis Blues, and the song became an international hit. Before he left Memphis for New York City in 1917, Handy wrote Beale Street Blues, which immortalized the street...
...Crump to Danny Thomas. Beale Street has remained pretty much the same. The place has been cleaned up a bit (Peewee's now houses a dry-cleaning establishment, and Handy Park is green among the pool halls), but on payday nights and Saturdays, a portion of it is almost the same old dangerous, wide-open Beale Street. There is one difference, however: about a dozen years ago, under Boss Crump, all east-west streets in Memphis were designated avenues, and Beale Street became Beale Avenue...
C.P.R's new $75,000-a-year boss left school in his teens to work on the railroad at 40? an hour. Later, Crump finished high school in night classes, took a leave of absence in 1926 to earn a railway mechanical-engineering degree at Indiana's Purdue University. He was hired back as a night foreman, advanced through various jobs until his combination of hard-rock experience, engineering skill and business talent paid off with the top vice-presidency...
...recent years, as aging (69) President William Mather cut back his own schedule, Vice President Crump shouldered much of the management. He directed the railway's dieselization program, cut costs and built up the profit margin ($27 million in 1954) despite a drop in revenues. Buck Crump has traveled nearly every mile of C.P.R.'s far-flung system, often in the engineer's cab, has a first-hand knowledge of his company's multiple enterprises and is known by sight by nearly every one of his 87,000 employees...