Word: hellstrom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Carl Reinhold Hellstrom, 68, president since 1946 of gunmakers Smith & Wesson Inc., a Swedish-born engineer who joined the company in 1931, found it with no blueprints for its weapons, no research or engineering department, no catalogue of its thousands of tools, by World War II had so changed things that Smith & Wesson cornered 75% of U.S. Army revolver orders, has since all but pushed rival Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. out of the sidearms business; of a heart attack; in Newton, Mass...