Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Paepcke, Container Corp.'s suave, able, young president. Unlike many a chief executive, President Paepcke does not make it a first principle to stay as far away from stockholders as possible. For one thing, he has less reason to make himself scarce. Container Corp. is the biggest maker of paperboard shipping containers and cartons in the U. S. Last year Container earned $1,238,000-its best showing since 1927, which was the first full year of the company's life. What President Paepcke will discuss with his stockholders this week is a longer step forward...
...gained national renown as a maker of habitat models for the Anthropology Department, and went into private business in 1929, doing a series of historical tableaux as well as other archaeological and ethnological groups. Shortly before his death, the firm had completed a series of tree models of the School of Forestry which may come to be considered his finest work. He was famed in the craft for his uneanny ability to give an illusion of reality in his work...
Sentenced. Marcus Alonzo Hanna III, 27, great-grandson and namesake of Cleveland's late great Senator and President-maker*: to Ohio State Reformatory for an indeterminate term; for forging the name of his uncle, Publisher Dan Rhodes Hanna (Cleveland News), to a $200 check...
...fame has already faded out of history. A few are local heroes so obscure and forgotten as to cause derisive mirth among Capitol sightseers. Such a one is the statue of Dr. John Gorrie, sent to Washington by Florida in 1914. Dr. Gorrie is identified as the first successful maker of artificial ice in the U. S. Not long after Dr. Gorrie died in 1855 famed Botanist-Physician Alvan Wentworth Chapman and Harvard's even more celebrated Botanist Asa Gray passed Gorrie's grave during a stroll. Said Chapman: "Gray, there is the grave of the man whom...
Previous to my enlistment in the Chemical Warfare Service, I had been a powder maker for the du Pont Powder Co. for three years; three years in which I had learned the value of technical training by watching men who had it promoted over my head because I didn't have it. Strange as it may seem, I bowed to the Board's ukase...