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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women 1) Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, Berkeley, Calif. 2) Miss Helen Jacobs, Berkeley. 3) Miss Edith Cross, San Francisco. 4) Miss Sarah Palfrey, Boston. 5) Mrs. L. A. Harper, San Francisco. 6) Miss Mary Greef, Kansas City. 7) Miss Eleanor Goss, New York City. 8) Miss Ethel Burkhardt, San Francisco. 9) Miss Marjorie K. Gladman, Santa Monica. 10) Miss Josephine Cruickshank, Santa Ana, Calif...

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

Although Scovill has been growing since James Mitchell Lamson Scovill brought his name to the button-making concern in 1811, its greatest expansion has been in recent years. In 1862 Chauncey P. Goss (of the famed Connecticut & Yale Goss family) entered the company; in 1900 became its president. The Gosses now have superseded the Scovills as principal stock-holders and officials. At present the one Scovill on the Board is outnumbered by Edward O. Goss (President and son of the first Goss), John H. Goss, Chauncey P. Goss Jr. and G. A. Goss as fellow-directors; William M. Goss, Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: In Naugatuck Valley | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Under Chauncey P. Goss the company entered its most prosperous period, to which the World War brought a climax. Between 1914 and 1919 it manufactured 21 million time fuses, 20 million artillery shell cases, 440 million bullet jackets. In 1923 it purchased two of the biggest U. S. pinmakers, a large manufacturer of plumbers' fixtures and a Wisconsin company making electrical appliances and fractional horsepower motors. In 1925 it took over another manufacturer of plumbing equipment. In 1926 it absorbed a large maker of soda fountain equipment. Between 1908 and 1928 its current assets increased from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: In Naugatuck Valley | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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