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Word: gair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turner, a Quaker from Maryland's tony Eastern Shore, came out of Swarthmore in 1893, when the U. S., ceasing to stretch out, was beginning to build up, turning to reinforced concrete to do it with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross $43,717,000), 1933 its worst since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Business Builds | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...George W. Gair and his guests, among whom was Secretary of Labor James John Davis, did not foregather at Greens Farms secretly, as implied, but by general invitation, to once more consider an agreement subscribed to by a majority of paper mill owners at Washington, providing for a five-day operating program to lessen overproduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

This was more than an expedient; it was necessary economically and it was humane socially. As in petroleum, more was being produced than was wanted or consumed. . . . That was all-mergers are believed by Mr. George W. Gair to be secondary to a correction of fundamentals and are not in themselves corrective when basic questions of production are allowed to continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...SANDERMAN Robert Gair Company New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

TIME's reason for calling the meeting at George W. Gair's home "secret": a nearby local paper had been warned not to mention it: the Robert Gair Co. itself refused to give information about an apparently similar meeting last fall; boxboard men in general would give information only upon receiving TIME's promise that their identities would not be disclosed. TIME mentioned a possible merger between the Robert Gair Co. and the Container Corp. of America because several important boxboard men believe it will eventually happen, some insist negotiations have been begun. The present denial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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