Word: elco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederick F. Bulkely, 77-year-old war worker of the Electric Boat Co. ("Elco" PTs), heard his 32-year-old son Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkely, probably the most decorated public hero of the war, give a speech at the Bayonne, N.J., plant. Father Fred then proudly mentioned his two other sons: Frederick, 54, and Douglas seven months...
Born. To Helen Jepson Dellera, 35, comely Pennsylvania-born soprano; and Walter Dellera, 30, her second husband, Elco (marine) engineer: their first child, a son, Riccardo (after his grandfather, the late Metropolitan Opera maestro Riccardo Dellera); in Manhattan. Weight...
...matter of patents. Rivals were discouraged because 1) the demand for submarines is so unstable, 2) subma- rines are so frighteningly hard to build. Peace and subs do not mix. To survive between wars Ebco looked to its Electro Dynamic Co. (marine engines and gen- erators) and Elco Motorboat Works* (pleasure cruisers), both at Bayonne, N.J. During the depression Ebco employment dropped to a low of 300, annual sales averaged $2,500,000, annual losses $1,000,000. Desperate, Ebco grabbed whatever work it could get. For Atlantic Coast Fisheries it built a fish-skinning machine, for a nearby beauty...
...Besides this, Ebco in 1936-40 refunded $5,669,000 to the Navy−20% more than total net profits for the same years.>/Footnotes> * An Elco-built PT boat took MacArthur off Bataan
...charge, or no one fired it. British troops which had reached Flushing to the southwest and Amsterdam to the north, a French mechanized force which had reached Breda to the southeast, were all too slow, powerless or witless to intervene. Dutch Foreign Minister Elco van Kleffens said German parachutists disguised as Dutch police prevented it. In any case, preceded by one last torrent of air bombs upon Rotterdam, which stubborn Dutch fighters had twice cleared of Nazis, the invaders rolled over the bridge and into the city...