Word: makers
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...editorial page since Editor Ingham's virtual retirement. Like the Register & Tribune's famed Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, now on leave of absence as Chief of U. S. Biological Survey, he was hired from the Sioux City Journal, He is reputed the best amateur candy maker in the Midwest...
Last week Union Bag & Paper Corp. approved final plans for a $4,000,000 plant in Savannah, Ga. Up to last month when the world's biggest maker of paper bags leased a tract along the Savannah River on the old Hermitage Plantation,* the city's businessmen & bankers were on pins & needles lest the company choose another site for its first Southern paper mill. Fernandino, Fla. tried desperately to wangle PWA funds to build a pine-pulp mill, which Union Bag was to operate. Then Jacksonville was discussed. But at last Savannah's newspapers got their chance...
Union Bag was originally not a maker of bags but of bag-making machinery, sold under license agreements. Up to the Civil War paper bags were improvised by wrapping old paper around one's arm and twisting the end like a cornucopia. Flat bags were developed in the 1860's and with them patented machinery for large-scale cutting and pasting. When it became evident that there was more money in making bags than bag machinery, Union Bag's predecessor merged with a group of companies operating under its licenses...
Blond, virile, a superb horseman, good tennis player and keen at bridge, Whiskey Salesman von Ribbentrop shortly recouped his fortunes by marrying, in 1920, Fräulein Anna Henkell. daughter of a German maker of champagne which Son-in-Law von Ribbentrop proceeded to popularize in the dry U. S. by shrewdly dealing on Canadian soil with bootleggers' agents...
Richard Upjohn, a bearded, sanctimonious Briton, was a carpenter & cabinet maker with a nice appreciation of Perpendicular Gothic, who settled in New Bedford, Mass, in the late 1820's. A contractor friend one day passed his shop with a roll of drawings for a New England courthouse. Each one was labeled, "Alexander Harris, architect...