Word: joplin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quit Vanderbilt University to take a $45-a-month job as "cashier, bookkeeper, janitor and meter repairman" for Doherty's Webb City & Carterville Gas Co. A self-taught wizard with figures, he moved up to auditor and treasurer of Doherty's electric company at Joplin, Mo. When he went to Manhattan that year for a company meeting, Jones's knowledge of budgeting so impressed Frank Frueauff, Doherty's partner, that Jones was made Frueauff's assistant. Less than two years later, Frueauff died, and Doherty gave 30-year-old Pete Jones...