Word: glidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Adrian D. (for Dwight) Joyce, 81, chairman of the board of the far-flung Glidden Co.; of a heart ailment; in Cleveland. Resourceful Tycoon Joyce bought the Glidden Varnish Co. in 1917, turned waste materials into byproducts and byproducts into big business; in 37 years he built Glidden from a $2,500,000-a-year company to one nearly 100 times that size, ranging the market from powdered copper to charcoal, from soybeans to sandwich spreads...
...million General Dynamics Corp. took over the $147 million Consolidated Vultee Aircreft Corp. last April, about the only thing the two had in common was that both were working on nuclear-powered craft, one in submarines and the other in airplanes. One of the earliest and biggest diversifiers was Glidden Co., from paints into such products as sex hormones and oleomargarine. Locomotive-building H. K. Porter Co., convinced that the locomotive market was running out of steam, bought up 15 companies in eleven years, now makes steel, industrial rubber and oilfield equipment. Its sales have soared from $8 million...
...under study for years by a team of eleven Minneapolis doctors, headed by Surgeon Clarence Walton Lillehei. Not until six weeks ago did the Minneapolis doctors, finally satisfied that they had taken every precaution possible against its many dangers, feel ready to try it. Their first patient was Gregory Glidden, 13 months, who had an opening between the ventricles of his heart. The donor's blood had to match the baby's, and the doctors decided that his father's was suitable. As the infant lay on one operating table, his father was on another parallel...
Fireproof Paint. A fire-retarding paint that can be used for home decorating has been put on sale by Glidden Co. Intense heat makes the paint swell and char, forming an incombustible protective blanket. Price: $7.95 a gallon in white, $8.35 in black and colors...
Pliable Paint. The Glidden Co. brought out a new industrial enamel with a silicone-resin base, which can be bent, twisted and hammered without marring. Glidden thinks its Nubelon S may replace porcelain and galvanizing on such things as kitchen appliances, metal furniture, farm buildings and hospital equipment. Price: $9 a gallon...