Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Mueller, 43, a graduate engineer out of Carnegie Tech, was an employe of the Duquesne Light Co. Nine years ago the Duquesne management encouraged its employes to form an independent union-thus hoping to keep out A.F.L. and C.I.O., which were sniffing at the door. The employes formed their union and subsequently elected talkative, affable, erratic George as their president...
Said Moriarty: "I didn't think we'd get 25 answers. Well, we got a deluge. After we reached 6,500, we called a halt. Kids were climbing in windows, telephoning, crowding at the door. In all, we had at least 7,000 who applied...
Anybody listening outside the door of our overseas communications room around six o'clock in the evening might think that we had trapped a hornet in a rain barrel. That angry noise is, however, the voice of our London "talker" coming in over the transatlantic radio telephone at some 300 words a minute...
...melancholy admission for 38-year-old Heinz to make. For the first time Tom, Dick & Harry would have some kind of say in the company the Heinzes had built and controlled for three generations. Henry John had founded the business in 1869 by hawking horse-radish from door to door; son Howard had lifted sales to $62,000,000 before he died in 1941; grandson H. J. II had kept them moving...
With its new outside capital the company will redeem $5,150,000 worth of outstanding preferred stock. The balance it will probably use to build bigger plants, market new varieties. Prospective investors, getting their first look inside the Heinz door, saw an appetizing sight. Last week Heinz reported that sales for the year ending last April 30 were $114,150,564. Net profit, $4,052,084, one of the best in the company's history...