Word: macauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making Liberty motors was Packard's introduction to big-volume production methods. After the war, shy, gentlemanly President Alvan Macauley ploughed his $10,000,000 war profits into a self-contained, beautifully tooled plant that has been an industry model for precise engineering. The plant continued to make airplane engines for the Government until 1925. And Packard became the fastest name in marine engines too. This arm of the Packard business got the company a fat Government contract last March: $2,000,000 worth of supermarine engines for the U. S. Navy...
...thousand $2,510-and-up cars a year has changed itself into a mass-production unit, is this year rolling 120,000 Sixes ($867 at Detroit) and Eights ($1,038) off its assembly lines. The man who led that invasion of the medium-priced automobile field was Macauley's successor, ex-Truck Salesman Max Gilman...
Died. Mary Anderson (Madame Antonio de Navarro), 80, legendary golden-haired U. S. and English stage favorite of the '705 and '80s; at Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire, England. Her persuasive charm, plus her talent, enchanted audiences. When she made her debut at 16 (as Juliet, at Macauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky.), critics described her as "a wonder of awkwardness" with "a glimmer of promise." She retired when she was 30, at the height of her career...