Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing that there had been no collusion. Last week 24 companies offered bids under these circumstances for the Government's cement contract for the next four months (3,000,000 bbl.). The Treasury was pleased to find all the bids different; the industry was upset because each maker knows that if his bid is too high he will lose out to some competitor for the Government's business, if too low it will irk his commercial customers still buying under the old system...
Although Boss Pendergast announced after the 1936 campaign that active management of his machine would thenceforth rest in the hands of Nephew James Michael Pendergast, he has by no means relinquished his duties as policy maker. Day after last week's election, Democrat Pendergast, after exclaiming that "this is a better tonic than a carload of medicine," indicated that he might be a more stub born obstacle to Democrats Clark and Roosevelt than optimists might think. Having invited reporters into his office for one of his rare interviews, the old boss announced that he was going on the warpath...
...Thirty-year-old Harry Florian Wolf is the best U. S. amateur squash tennis player. Serious son of a Montclair, N. J handkerchief maker, Harry Wolf went to Williams, where he played no squash tennis but by diligent study won a Phi Beta Kappa key, by diligent bridge-playing won a wife. After college he settled down to a steady routine of handkerchiefs, squash and bridge, has been monotonously successful in all three...
...year ago by a trick knee and a spiked heel, Art Johns should show great improvement over his below-par performance at second base last year. Already John's hitting in the cage has jumped, while he is regarded by many sports writers as the best double-play maker in Eastern college baseball. Varsity utility infielder last season and regular Freshman short-stop of the undefeated team two years ago, Dick Grondahl is being groomed to take over the place vacated by the graduation of Captain Tom Bilodeau at short...
...president and sales manager of the world's oldest and largest maker of genuine puddled iron last week resigned in a huff. All President Presly Neville Guthrie Jr. and Sales Manager W. S. Shiffer of Reading Iron Co. would say was: "It is an entirely personal matter." But friends disclosed that Reading is on the verge of liquidation. A 102-year-old subsidiary of gigantic Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., which is being reorganized under the Bankruptcy Act, Reading Iron employs 1,700 men, has sales of $4,000,000 a year. But foot-scrapers, ornamental fretwork and wrought...