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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horses for Profits. A meticulous man who inherited a Chicago fortune, Warren Wright decided when he took over his family's Calumet Baking Powder Co. that he would not be satisfied until he doubled the fortune. Under his able management, Calumet prospered so well that Postum Co., Inc. offered him "more than it was worth" (about $29,200,000 worth of common stock), and he sold...
Last week, the commission, chairmanned by Roy E. Larsen, president of TIME Inc.,† told where it hoped to begin. From its headquarters in Manhattan, it will send out investigators for pilot studies of just what community groups are doing to improve their schools. It will also act as a clearinghouse for good & bad news about U.S. public education, citing local groups for a good job wherever possible, and spotlighting problem areas. To make sure that the commission stays above all special interests, it will accept only members "not professionally identified with education, religion, or politics." As the commission...
...five biggest U.S. producers of hybrid seed corn: De Kalb (Ill.) Agricultural Association Inc.; Pfister Associated Growers Inc. (which Pfister started and later left); Henry Wallace's Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. of Grimes, Iowa; Edward J. Funk & Sons of Kentland, Ind.; Pfister Hybrid Corn...
Born. To Vera Zorina (Brigitta Hartwig Lieberson), 32, Berlin-born Norwegian prima ballerina turned musicomedienne (I Married an Angel, Louisiana Purchase), and Goddard Lieberson, 38, vice president and member of the board of directors of Columbia Records, Inc.: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Jonathan Sears. Weight...
Almost any topnotch businessman could have qualified for the big title and the $65,000-a-year salary just by getting along with The Boss. But among candidates for the presidency of Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. that one qualification was rare indeed. After cross-grained old Sewell Avery goaded Wilbur Norton into throwing up the job last spring, no one rushed to apply for it. Outsiders shunned the opening with a firm: "Not me! Not there!" Most of the No. 2 men in the company quit faster than they could be replaced, until all eight vice-presidencies...