Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forced into receivership last August, Detroit's 92-year-old packing house, Hammond Standish & Co., just closed down; the banks which had made heavy loans were baying too loudly. But the company's 325 employees, many of whom had been with it all their working lives, loyally decided to put the company back on its feet. A month ago, 175 of them went back to work under an agreement to collect no wages in the first two weeks, be paid after that only if the firm was back in the black. Last week President Joseph Strobl announced that...
Census. In Hammond, Ind., the Times canvassed the town's nine cemetery caretakers, concluded that since Hammond has 126,322 people underground, but only 87,594 above, the town is more dead than, alive...
...Mason Hammond '25, master of Kirkland House, announced the student Commencement Day speakers. John E. Rexine '51 of Eliot House and West Roxbury will give the Latin Oration. DeWitt S. Goodman '51 of Kirkland House and New York City will deliver a speech on "Blood Fractionation: Science in the Service...
...first week on the job, Critic Smith took after the star of a Covent Garden performance of Madame Butterfly. For him, Soprano (and onetime Australian golf champ) Joan Hammond was "not equipped by physique or temperament to portray the fragile, trusting heroine. There was about her a heartiness . . . suggesting she had left her riding crop just outside the door." With that, the storm broke...
...dance will be preceded by the traditional Sunset Supper in the Union, with music by Terry at the Hammond. Plans for Saturday include the Harvard, M.I.T., Princeton, Rutgers crew race in the afternoon and the Jubilee Formal in the Union that evening...