Word: helper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since he first proposed building prefabricated houses of enameled steel, Lustron Corp.'s Carl Strandlund has found a willing helper in the Government. The Reconstruction Finance Corp. lent him $15.5 million, got him a Columbus (Ohio) surplus plant (TIME, Feb. 10, 1947), pushed his priority claims to steel. Last week RFC again gave Lustron another big boost. Although Lustron has turned out only seven model houses in a year, RFC lent it another $10 million...
...original Fuller Brush man is kindly, dignified Arthur C. Fuller, 62, who parlayed a basement shop in Somerville, Mass. into a national institution. Fuller made his brushes by night, sold them by day. In 1906 he moved to Hartford, got a helper. When retail stores refused to handle his brushes, he got his first salesmen. He has taken a paternal interest in them ever since; all his district managers are former salesmen. When son Howard left college (Harvard and Duke), he peddled brushes for a year to learn the business...
...Gallup pollsters asked ordinary U.S. citizens what they would do if they were President. Most had a simple platform: "I would help people and try to make them happy." The people's concept of the U.S. President, Gallup reported, was of a benevolent father, a helper and protector of the common...
Detroit's Joe Louis was also doing some traveling these days, but mostly just around & around, taking off pounds at Pompton Lakes, N.J. for his June 23 fight. He attracted a little helper...
Early Years. Father Joseph's $15 a week as a blacksmith's helper did not go far. Young Joe began selling newspapers at seven, later worked in nearby jewelry manufacturing plants...