Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Gardner people who cook with gas were able to hear the legend firsthand. They heard it from Bob Greenwood, who had taken over a job that few public utility presidents ever thought of adding to their administrative duties...
With a flashlight stuffed in his coat pocket, he set forth to read meters. His objects: 1) to save expenses, 2) to get closer touch with the customers of Gardner Gas, Fuel & Light...
...over ten years the competition of fuel oil and of the Gardner Electric Light Co. has been slowly running the gas company out of business. But big New England Power Association felt bound to keep the gas company going because it also owned the light company and wanted to keep everybody's good will. To keep it going, N. E. P. A. poured $297,700 into the gas company. Its gross fell from $76,439 for 1930 to $37,215 last year, and its annual net deficit ranged between...
...interest) completely wiped out, no strings attached. How New England happened to pick him, Bob Greenwood says he still does not know. But townspeople can guess: onetime furniture manufacturer, onetime chairman of the town Public Service Committee, Bob Greenwood was about as popular a businessman as there was in Gardner, and had had no steady job of late...
...lose. For in addition to the physical assets of the plant, which have a possible salvage value of around $11,000, he has also taken over $11,715 in quick assets-$6,324 in cash, the rest in receivables, materials, prepaid accounts. If gross could be increased, debt-free Gardner Gas might yet become a fair moneymaker for its president, his five employes. To do that, Bob Greenwood had an idea on which (between meters) he worked last week. He went looking for off-main customers in the country who might buy bottled gas for cooking, to be delivered...