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Anent the use of grave stones for imposing stones in the March 2 issue of TIME, the reverse of this practice occurred in 1913, when the headstone of the grave of General Smith D. Atkins, for nearly half a century editor of the Freeport, Ill. Journal, was an imposing stone upon which the first forms composed by the General as an apprentice printer were imposed. At the request of the Editor and Publisher, I furnished a photograph of this head stone, showing the inscription, which was published in that magazine. In the comment, it was stated that the only other...
...From those occupations he went to Boston to be a messenger boy in the Stone & Webster Building for a while, then entered the legal department of the firm. He was a vice president when he resigned last week to go to Kidder, Peabody. He is also a director of Freeport Texas Co., New England Trust Co., Railway & Light Securities Co. Golfer, fisherman, gunner and rider-to-hounds, he was in Florida last week recovering from brain concussion suffered when he was thrown last October in the Norfolk Hunt (Medfield, Mass...
...Manganese Corp., allowing the minority interest to remain in the shrewd hands of David Marvin Goodrich, chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co. A big mill will be built at once, shipments to the U. S. started. Surprising, however, was revelation of the U. S. firm's identity. It was Freeport Texas Co., second biggest producer of sulphur...
...Back of Freeport Texas move can be seen the force of the new management which last year wrested control from Eric Pierson Swenson, onetime National City chairman. Leader of the new group is Freeport's chairman, Odie R. Seagraves, self-made Texan, organizer of United Gas Corp.'s super gas system. Ably carrying out his policies is Eugene Levering Norton. 50, Freeport president. Mr. Norton was born in Baltimore, went to Cornell, then started his own investment firm. His best boast: he has never had a boss except for a board of directors. He helped Frank Andrew Munsey form Baltimore...
Although manganese and sulphur are not entirely foreign (manganese sulphate is an esteemed fertilizer) the deal was not concluded because of any relationship between the two products but to add to Freeport Texas' income from natural resources. Also, Freeport Texas has worked out a new process in treating manganese and will sell it at $24 a ton to compete against Soviet dumping. To pacify U. S. producers who see Cuban manganese coming in without the $11.20 duty other manganese must pay, Freeport Texas promises cooperation, generosity with its new process...