Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary remembers: "Father knew everybody in town-the harness maker, the policeman, the garbage collector ... A walk up Main Street used to be an ordeal. Father said, 'Now come on, Dean, we're going down to the post office.' Well, I knew that was a morning shot to hell...
...partly by branching out into making jars for industrial canners. She walks around her plants in sensible shoes, and shuttles between factories by plane. Last year her company turned out more than 100 million jars, not far behind Muncie's Ball Brothers Co., the biggest U.S. canning-jar maker. Last week, in a nip & tuck battle with Ball for the No. 1 spot, Mrs. Kerr launched her biggest advertising campaign...
Bearded Headmaster Copping had already declared war on discipline of the young by their elders. He won a skirmish when Eric Wildman, a maker of whipping canes and head of Britain's Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment, went up to Horsley Hall to lecture: Copping's students seized Caneman Wildman and flogged him with his own rods (TIME, Dec. 6). But 28-year-old Robert Copping had lots of other ideas for battles on a wider front...
...when a Cincinnati buggy-maker named Bob Hedges bought into the St. Louis Browns baseball club, he got a bargain for his $35,000. In 1916 he sold out for $525,000. Since then nobody has been able to get rich owning the Browns, a chronic second-division club...
...Dealer. Banker Shields, who had brought in the new board, was neither an aircraft maker nor, until recently, a stockholder of Curtiss-Wright. But he had other qualifications; as senior partner of Manhattan's Shields & Co., he had helped float some of the biggest U.S. industrial issues and had played a hand in some other big reorganizations, such as the New York Stock Exchange in 1938. Now, as chairman of Curtiss-Wright's executive committee, Shields's next job will be to help President Jordan lure new aircraft designers and production men to Curtiss-Wright to step...