Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Green, the Korean war was a bonanza. As manager of the Guild Products Corporation, an improvised firm with a rented plant in Newark, N.J., Green managed to get a $177,335 Government contract to make bandages of a type used by front-line medical corpsmen for emergency dressings and tourniquets...
Some of the Guild Products' output-earmarked for Marines in Korea-was up to specifications. But 15.000 of the company's bandages were made on defective machines, and were so cut that they would fall apart under the slightest strain. Navy inspectors were shown only good bandages. An indignant Guild Products foreman tipped off the FBI; if he had not done so, the faulty bandages would not have been discovered until they reached the Korean front...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Somerset Maugham's Jane, with Edna Best, Michael Redgrave...
...Kiggins White switched from law to accounting because "an accountant who is lucky gets sent out on a variety of assignments and learns a lot." White got plenty of assignments. At 25, he was assistant to the president of the Union News Co.; at 30, treasurer of the Literary Guild; at 37, treasurer of Newsweek (then undergoing financial reorganization); at 38, treasurer...
James Albert Frye was appointed Adjutant General of the United States Militia by Governor Guild, and retired in 1907 with the rank of Major General. He is referred to in our 50th class report as the wit of our CRIMSON Board, delighting particularly at festive meetings, and raising a favorite question from month to month with the remark "Well, how about another annual dinner." I can remember his song, "The Same Old Game," the words I think original with...