Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three big watchmakers-Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham-set off an alarm in Washington last week over tariffs. Before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee, they testified that higher tariffs for watches are vital to national defense. The alarm was well timed. It came as word leaked out that the U.S. Tariff Commission, by a 4-2 vote, has recommended to President Eisenhower that tariffs on all Swiss watches and movements be raised about 50%,* thus putting the squeeze on imports of Swiss movements...
...President Truman turned down higher tariffs on Swiss watch imports, but Elgin, Hamilton and Waltham have again demanded peril-point protection...
GENERAL MILLS, whose sales of housewares have been slipping, sold out its small-appliance business (electric irons, mixers, etc.) to Mc-Graw Electric Co. of Elgin, 111. (Toastmaster). Last year General Mills' housewares-division sales amounted to 2% of the company's $483 million gross, but current sales are estimated at less than 1 % or under...
...after millionaires'" widows, men with elephantiasis of the reputation (huge trunks and teeny minds), authorities on gas, bishops, bestsellers, editors looking for writers, writers looking for publishers, publishers looking for dollars, existentialists, serious physicists with nuclear missions, men from the BBC who speak as though they had the Elgin marbles in their mouths, potboiling philosophers, professional Irishmen (very lepri-corny), and, I am afraid, fat poets with slim volumes...
...Swem Elgin, the doorkeeper, the three people at the door−two dark young men and an attractive woman−were just three more visitors to be admitted to the half-filled spectators' gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives. Timidly, they asked if they might go into the Ladies' Gallery and watch the Congressmen at work. "You got any cameras?" asked Elgin. The three said they had not. He motioned them through the swinging doors...