Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other companies were "carefully weighing" a price increase. Companies dependent on outside sources of crude had little choice. If they did not meet Sun's buying price, they would probably not be able to buy crude. In explanation of the increase, Sun's Vice President John Glenn (Jack) Pew* said that his company had "found it increasingly difficult to obtain crude oil. . [because] of ever-increasing premiums which are being paid ... by many of our competitors." But many oilmen disagreed when Pew added that "an increased price will prove an incentive for stimulating increased production" Crude was short...
...confused with his uncle, John Glenn Pew, President of Sun Shipbuilding Co., or with his cousin, John Glenn Pew Jr., also with the shipbuilding company...
Solid foundation of the Tigers' hopes is a healthy percentage returned from last year's outfit, spiced by two new backs who figure to outrace Crimson defenders tomorrow. Potent Paul Cowie, dashman who whipped Army's Glenn Davis last year, paces the Bengal attack, with help from George Sella, wingback whose twelve pass receptions this fall have netted him 285 yards...
Probably the most interesting reel on the program is a Pete Smith Specialty showing scenes from about a dozen of last year's football games. In the course of ten minutes, you can see Glenn Davis, Doe Blanchard, Bobby Layne, Charlie Trippi, and others in a series of spectacular runs and passes, nearly all of which go for seventy and eighty-yard touchdowns. Later on, in the newareel a Columbia end called Swiacki catches several passes from a prose position and beats Army. All in all, there is no grid lack at the U.T. this week...
...transport planes, Lockheed had shut down its Constellation production, if only temporarily, after T.W.A. turned back 14 planes it could no longer afford (Lockheed lost $4.9 million in the first half of 1947). Glenn L. Martin Co. faced big losses on its new two-engined transport, the 3-0-3, after United Air Lines (which had ordered 50 of the 84 ordered) canceled its $16 million contract. Even Douglas, now busy with its DC-6, felt shaky. Douglas' comptroller, Ralph V. Hunt, told the commission of the industry's "losses of record proportions, mounting costs, and a steady...