Word: kenosha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first exposition of "the match game"-in which each player holds three or less matches in his right hand and all players guess at the total held. Good shot: Peter, Millicent and the trapper playing to see who sleeps in the cabin's only bed. Son of a Kenosha, Wis. saloon keeper, Don Ameche attended Columbia (Iowa), Marquette, Georgetown and Wisconsin Universities in quick succession. In his vacations he worked. His easiest job was testing the finished product of a mattress factory. His hardest was in a cement factory, loading trucks. When he left college he joined the Jackson...
Last summer the citizens of Kenosha, Wis., gave Charles Williams Nash a public celebration in honor of the 20th anniversary of his removal from Detroit. A farmer until he was 28, a buggy maker in his 40's, the robust, hard-headed motorman stepped down from the presidency of General Motors Corp. at 52 to make his own car under his own name. In the two decades since he moved to Kenosha, his Nash Motors Co. has made more than 1,100,000 cars, paid more than $110,000,000 in dividends...
Four years ago, hoping to spend less time at his old pine desk in his Kenosha office, more time in his Lakeside mansion, Motorman Nash retired to the chairmanship of his rich little company, naming his general manager as president and presumptive successor. Not long ago, however, Mr. Nash regretfully announced President Earl Hansen McCarty's resignation. At 72 thrifty Mr. Nash again had the job of finding an eventual chief executive. Last week he found his man - George Walter Mason, 45, president-chairman of Detroit's Kelvinator Corp...
...Charles Williams Nash was a carriage trimmer in Flint Road Cart Co. Two decades later he was president of General Motors, with Walter P. Chrysler working under him. In 1916 he left General Motors, spent $5,000,000 for the old Rambler automobile plant at Kenosha, Wis. By 1926 he had built 500,000 Nashes and his company had earned $80,000,000 on its original investment. Last year, at 70, Chairman Nash, reputedly worth $100,000,000, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary...
These two kids, a girl from a Madison, Wisconsin high school, and a boy from Kenosha, upstate, who came together at Wisconsin to take lessons from Prof. William C. Troutman, are doing very well for themselves...