Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper, the photographs showed with equal clarity Paris' elegant mansions and lean-to shanties, her fashionably dressed strollers and her ragpickers. Among the finest: a warmhearted study of a blind organ grinder accompanying a bright-faced young street singer, deadpan views of the cluttered windows of a toupee maker and hairdresser, sailor-hatted moppets at play in the Luxembourg Gardens, a plump bakery girl in leg-of-mutton sleeves pushing her wicker cart, a crew of pavers at work on a Paris street...
...story skyscraper made quite a crown for the empire-building son of a Lithuanian suspenders-maker. Crown, who was born in Chicago, started out 32 years ago in the sand and gravel business. His Material Service Corp. now grosses $45 million a year. Most Chicago businessmen had never heard of Crown until three years ago, when he and three associates bought working control (25%) of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949). He has also supplied much of the money behind Hotelman Conrad Hilton's buying ventures, is now the biggest stockholder (8.7%) after Hilton...
YOUR CAPTION UNDER PICTURE OF ECUSTA PLANT CALLING IT "WORLD'S NO. 1 MAKER OF CIGARETTE PAPER" IS INCORRECT. FACTS ARE THESE: ECUSTA HAS TOTAL OF ONLY EIGHT PAPER MACHINES. PETER J.SCHWEITZER, INC. HAS 31 PAPER MACHINES WORLDWIDE: 16 DEVOTED TO MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTE PAPER, WORKING 7 DAYS A WEEK, 24 HOURS A DAY PRODUCING CONSIDERABLY MORE CIGARETTE PAPER PER YEAR THAN ECUSTA...
...fascinated by gadgets. He once built himself a camera modeled on a fish eye, and wandered all over town snapping pictures, just to see what the city would "look like to a fish." He took up painting, wrote slick fiction with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing...
...companies have expanded as much in the last five years as Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. The world's biggest maker of plastics and the second biggest chemical company (first: E. I. du Pont de Nemours), Union Carbide has pumped $500 million into new plants and products. Last week Union Carbide announced another whopping expansion. From the Prudential and Metropolitan Life insurance companies it borrowed $300 million to step up its output of petroleum products, plastics, iron alloys and its new wool-like synthetic fiber, Dynel. If it can get materials, Union Carbide will build at the rate of more...