Word: iveagh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hurry. The boss of Guinness is the second Earl of Iveagh (rhymes with diver), 76, pink-cheeked, white-haired great-great-grandson of the founder. Lord Iveagh, who by preference and habit drinks only Guinness or water, was twice winner (1895-96) of the Diamond Sculls at the Henley Regatta, pioneered pure milk production in England, now runs a dairy farm on his 23,000-acre estate in England. Lord Iveagh and the Guinness family still have controlling stock in the company which, in 1950, earned ?1.9 million ($5.3 million...
Under Lord Iveagh the company began its first advertising in 1928 in England. It quickly became Britain's biggest advertiser. Business boomed, and it built a London brewery. In 1948 Guinness also opened a small American brewery (100,000 bbls.-a-year capacity) in Long Island City. It found New York's tap water as suitable as that from Dublin springs...