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...incredulous as Greenwood was SEC when N. E. P. A. asked approval of the deal. He was on the witness stand for seven hours convincing the Public Utilities Division that he had nothing up his sleeve, was no stooge...
...company of Gardner, Mass, (pop. 20,397) has a shiny new truck, a new office on the town square at the corner of Vernon and Parker Streets. It also has a new president and owner: comfortable, pipe-smoking Harold Emerson Greenwood. More than all these it has a new legend for thrifty Gardner folk: how 45-year-old "Bob" Greenwood bought the whole works-the silvered storage tank, the grimy plant down by the Boston & Maine tracks, the mains connecting with 800-odd Gardner homes...
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...
Popeyed and incredulous was Bob Greenwood when New England sought him out six months ago and offered a deal: the whole works for $1, with a king's ransom in debt ($388,427 including 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...
...came together like so many well-fitting bicuspids, to celebrate a century of scientific dentistry. The dentists had good cause to show their teeth in pride, for as an art, U. S. dentistry is the world's finest. From the days when Dentist Isaac Greenwood supplied grim-lipped George Washington with a set of wooden teeth (they splintered), a set of iron teeth (port wine rusted them), and a dressy set of bone teeth, U. S. dentists have come...