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Word: gellman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn out 4.2-in. mortar shells. This company, the Erie Basin Metal Products Inc., did not then actually exist. But soon after Pearl Harbor the War Department gave Dr. Garsson's nonmachined firm a whopping order for shells. Meantime Henry Garsson had found two men-Allen B. Gellman and Joseph Weiss of Chicago-who had factories and machines but no war contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Murray Garsson's Suckers | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Shell Game. They and the Garsson brothers formed a partnership. Soon the Government's order was boosted to $2,900,000. The Garssons were in the shell game-with Gellman and Weiss providing the plants and the Government (by advance payments) the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Murray Garsson's Suckers | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...went the Garsson earnings. The Committee has traced more than $500,000 in fees and salaries to the brothers; Gellman and Weiss did even better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Murray Garsson's Suckers | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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