Word: lobban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each & every raise,, whether it affected ten or 10,000, the Press thumped and boomed on its big bass drum.† Errett Lobban Cord, whose companies have never been noted for high wages, upped all workers in his automobile and aviation units 5%. Up 12½% went all Goodyear Tire & Rubber employes. Up 10% went wages in George E. Rogers & Co., Pittsburgh wholesale hay & grain dealers. The upping movement undoubtedly spread far & wide last week, but three things the Press did not report were: 1) What percentage of all U. S. workers received raises. 2) what the wages were before...
...November 1932 he rushed in as master of Errett Lobban Cord's proxy fight to gain control of Aviation Corp...
...having whipped together a quick fortune out of Moon, Auburn and Cord automobiles, Errett Lobban Cord set out to head the "largest air passenger and express unit, in the world."* He laid siege to Avco which, as a stockholder, he thought was being mismanaged. He felt it was worrying too much about its bulging portfolio of stocks, too little about its basic business of flying planes. He thought there was too much Wall Street atmosphere about the company, too little airport smell...
...President James Henry Rand Jr. of Remington-Rand Co., Chairman John Henry Hammond of Bangor & Aroostook R. R. Co., President Robert E. Wood and Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears. Roebuck & Co., Vincent Bendix, Samuel S. Fels (naptha), Philip K-Wrigley (gum); Motormaker Howard Earle Coffin, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, President Edward Asbury O'Neil III of American Farm Bureau Federation, Master Louis John Taber of the National Grange, Organ-maker Farny R. Wurlitzer, President William Joseph Me-Aneeny of Hudson Motor Car Co., Educator William Albert Wirt...
...about to succeed Albert Henry Wiggin as head of great Chase National (see p. 27) but his big achievements lay ahead of him. Scanning the realm of business the well-informed citizen would probably conclude that the biggest and boldest strides against the economic tide were those of Errett Lobban Cord who turned from highways to skyways in his restless effort to expand. The year proved that there was no such thing as a Depression-proof industry. Yet John Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific food stores, by holding the line, came closest to an exception...