Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westinghouse stopped production of refrigerators, ranges, washing machines and other appliances; the Budd Co., maker of railway cars, lopped 10,500 off its 20,000-man payroll. In many another company, personnel men feverishly juggled vacation schedules to coincide with diminishing steel stocks. U.S. production has been so disrupted that even after the strike is settled it will be weeks before production gets back to normal...
Last week the man in a hurry announced the biggest deal of his career. Subject to approval by stockholders of both companies, said Nichols, Mathieson Will buy up E. R. Squibb & Sons, $100 million-a-year maker of household drugs, whose brown-labeled bottles and boxes have been standard equipment in medicine cabinets all over the U.S. for nearly a century. If the stock swap (five Squibb shares for three Mathieson shares) is approved by stockholders as expected, the resulting company will be a $300 million giant, sixth biggest chemical company...
Chesterfield had the rest of the tobacco industry chain-smoking nervously. Chesterfield's maker, Liggett & Myers, had brought out the first king-size version of its top brand, identical except for size, in name, tobacco and package. What made the trade nervous was the fact that the big Chestie, without making any visible dent in the sales of its shorter brother, quickly ran up king-size sales in the test markets. Despite the 1?-a-pack higher price, dealers could scarcely keep up with demand...
...loses in Chicago, John Fine's political position will be badly shaken. But there is a very good chance that a pro-Ike pronouncement from Fine would assure Eisenhower's nomination. In that case, John Fine would be the man of the hour, the President maker from Luzerne County...
...Silly. The maker of Eton's new window was no Eastern craftsman, but a frail, schoolmarmish Dublin spinster named Evie Hone, who, at 58, is considered one of the top stained-glass artists of her time. Evie started out as a painter of fair-to-middling abstractions, but quit when she decided "it was leading nowhere." One day she visited a Dublin stained-glass works and asked if she could do a window. "They told her not to be silly. Evie Hone stamped angrily home, did one on her own for a rural church, and has been...