Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them up in business in a serious way. Then their success was tremendous, and when Life Savers, Inc. was adopted into Drug Inc., Mr. Noble stayed on as president of the company, actual operating head. ¶ Bristol-Myers, taken in a few months later, was an old family business, maker of several estimable and well established products: Sal Hepatica, Ipana ToothPaste, Gastrogen Tablets, Ingram's Shaving Cream. The Bristols like Mr. Noble remained in charge of their company, Father William M. Bristol as chairman. Eldest Son Henry Platt Bristol as president, Second Son Lee Bristol as vice president...
...Pittsburgh Coal Co. was paying 10% more to 8,000 workers. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest cotton textile manufacturer, announced a 15% raise at Manchester, N. H. Other textile mills at Dallas, Gadsden, Ala., Lawrence, Mass., Rockville, Conn, swung into line. Canning factories in Florida, a Philadelphia handbag maker, a Suffolk, Va., candy company, upped pay. Sears, Roebuck rescinded a 10% salary cut order...
Engraved in Roman capitals is the name LEVERETT, and the maker's mark, EW, to the left of the handle. Added to this now is an inscription in Latin, composed by E. K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, and translated as follows...
...Owens, glassblower, revolutionized the glass business by inventing a machine that was a substitute for human lungs in bottle making. Out of his invention grew the great Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo. Four years ago a merger made Owens Bottle into Owens-Illinois Glass Co., biggest U. S. bottle maker, producer of 40% of U. S. bottles, and made William Edward Levis its active head. Last week William Edward Levis gave signs of introducing another revolution to the bottle business, vertical integration of a new kind: Owens-Illinois having acquired a 40,000-share interest in National Distillers Products...
...mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well, and when Soprano Frieda Hempel did her old Jenny Lind act, she sang off pitch. But nobody...