Word: foilman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a squad of nine fencers, Coach Rene Peroy set out yesterday for the Intercollegiate Fencing Meet at New York to be held today and tomorrow. Captain and epeeman Edward O. Miller '37, foilman William F. Gerber '37, and sabreman Edward S. Skinner '38 are expected to shine...
...Pentagonal meet at New Haven Saturday, the Crimson fencers finished fifth with Navy first, Yale second, Army third, and Princeton fourth. Foilman William F. Gerber '38 was the Crimson high point man with seven victories...
...selling packaged products. Few years ago he made the discovery that the foil which wraps an Eskimo Pie can also be used to insulate a house. It was really no discovery at all because the Germans had long used shiny foil for insulation because of its high reflective power. Foilman Reynolds set up a building division. When it boosted sales of aluminum insulating foil from almost nothing to $300,000 in three years, he needed no persuasion to diversify his products, march deeper into the building business...
...Shrewdly Foilman Reynolds planted himself halfway between oldtime builders who upheld the traditional methods of constructing a house and prefabricators who insist that all homes should be produced like Fords. He believed in standardization and mass production of parts but not of the complete structure. Through Reynolds Corp., one of two new subsidiaries, Reynolds Metals will market the basic structural and mechanical equipment for "The House with the Silver Lining," but will have no stock homes to sell. Through the other subsidiary, Reynolds Fiscal Corp., it will finance houses "when local financing is not available...
Coach Peroy anticipates an active year for the Harvard teams. Twenty-two Freshmen are working out at least three times a week in the fencing room, while 17 upper classmen report for practice. The team is to be built around John G. Hurd '34, captain, an excellent foilman...