Word: makers
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...HELEN R. MAKER...
...last summer, President Elmer Holmes Bobst of the Warner-Hudnut drug and cosmetic company phoned the head of Maltine Co., $3,000,000-a-year maker of drugs. "How about lunch today?" he asked. Replied Maltine's James Chilcott: "I'm just about to take off on a fishing trip. Is it really important?" Answered Bobst: "I just want to talk to you about buying your company...
Even though it is the biggest wool and worsted fabric maker in the world, American Woolen Co. has been badly scared by the textile depression. Its three-block-long mill in Lawrence, Mass., world's largest worsted mill, is running at about half speed, and its 21 other mills in New England are either running below capacity or have been shut down...
Died. Walter 0. (for Owen) Briggs, 74, founder and board chairman of the Briggs Manufacturing Co., largest independent auto-body maker in the U.S., and since 1936 sole owner of the Detroit Tigers; of a kidney ailment; at his winter home in Miami Beach, Fla. The up-from-the-shop son of a locomotive engineer, Briggs at 27 was a junior magnate in Detroit's mushrooming car production. In 1907, after having trouble getting tickets to see the Tigers in their first World Series, he resolved that some day he would give Detroit a ball park with enough seats...
...prince next popped up in 1940 wearing the uniform of De Gaulle's Free French air force. Soon afterward he went to Argentina, where he teamed with old friend Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker who had also bet on the wrong fascist. Mandl, now doing business with Peron, put Starhemberg up in style, but the prince yearned for his own acres...