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Thus Glenn Edward Swanson, a slim, nervous man with an autocratic air and computer-like mind, described how he got into the coil business in a Chicago loft 15 years ago. In its first year, his Standard Coil Products Co. barely broke even. Five years later, it was worth only $16,000. But by last week, Standard Coil was the biggest U.S. maker of television coils and tuners. On a gross of $24 million in the first nine months of 1950, the company netted $4,000,000, after provision for taxes...
Married. Blanche Thebom, 33, mezzo-soprano who made the grade from a Baptist choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan Opera House; and Richard E. Metz, 38, Manhattan banker; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...crowded confusion of a fourth-floor Manhattan loft last week, a crew of 24 editors and writers shared the birth pangs of a new magazine. After putting to bed the first issue of Vision, a 25?^ news fortnightly printed entirely in Spanish, they rushed 67,000 copies by plane to 5,000 newsstands all over Latin America...
...business, later set up a woolen company with Sam, lost it, turned to manufacturing a mothproofing liquid, and lost that, too. Then the Rosenberg boys borrowed $100,000 from friends (among them: two of Detroit's famed Fisher brothers), hired 15 people and started making matches in a loft in downtown St. Louis. But they had little success until they hit on the idea of putting personalized ads for businessmen on the covers. Within two years (1929), Universal ran up $100,000 profit, has continued to be a moneymaker. Said Sam Rosenberg: "We like to think...
...Thomas Patten was an evangelist in fancy maroon shirts. He wore cowboy hats with brims that were wide, and cowboy boots with toes that were narrow, and his congregation couldn't refuse him a thing. When he asked for money, they gave him money-for a choir loft that went up & down like the stage at Radio City Music Hall, for an electric Escalator that lifted worshipers up to a raised altar. These wonders never appeared, but in seven years in Oakland, Calif. Tom acquired nine cars, 46 suits, 200 pairs of boots and a cabin cruiser. He called...