Word: founder
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...another merchant might of hardware, and selling it as enthusiastically. In 1915 he became manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, then founded his own concert agency. Gradually he added to his domain: in 1922 he became business manager of the New York Philharmonic, and in 1927 he became a co-founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, gleefully predicting an immense shortage of artists as radio grew...
Echo from the Moon. The collision warner is the latest electronics breakthrough by Arthur A. Collins, 47, the company's founder-president and electronics genius. Collins has captured 80% of the U.S. commercial-airlines market and 60% to 70% of the free-world foreign market in airborne electronics, i.e., equipment for navigation, instrument landing, flight direction, automatic piloting, weather radar. His equipment operates along the U.S.'s and Canada's far northern Distant Early Warning (DEW) line. His young company, which grew from a gross of $722,000 in 1940 to $123 million in fiscal...
...will give the appearance of a division of labor." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany stood with Beck against endorsement-but for different reasons. Meany had been vastly disappointed by the civil-rights planks of both the Democratic and Republican Conventions; moreover, he recalled the injunction of an A.F.L. founder, Samuel Gompers, against labor becoming too closely identified with either major political party. "Look," boomed Meany, walloping the table with the flat of his ham-sized right hand. "Don't get me wrong. I'm not neutral-I'm against both parties...
...flourished mightily at the expense of winebibbers. Though Thomas Welch at first was willing to write off grape juice as a Christian endeavor, demand from churches and teetotalers soon forced the company into bigger quarters at Westfield, N.Y., the self-anointed "grape-juice capital of the world." Founder Welch's son, square-jawed "Dr. Charles," ran the company "as much as a temperance agency as a profit-making concern," capitalized on anti-liquor sentiment with the slogan: "Get the Welch habit-it's one that won't get you." One of his most successful ads showed...
...field traditionally befogged by jargon and a monolithic solemnity, the Lancet's witty, lucid approach has long been a refreshing anomaly. "We shall exclude from our pages," said Founder Thomas Wakley, "the semibarbarous phraseology of the schools, and adopt as its substitute plain English diction...