Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Shots. Budd Sr. died in 1946 and Edward Jr., who had grown up in the company as tool & die maker, factory foreman and general manager, took over as president. He cut out the long-shot experimenting on such things as a stainless steel amphibious plane, and concentrated on railroad and auto equipment. Budd became the world's biggest independent producer of auto body parts, began paying its first regular dividends in 16 years...
Gruber's father, a famed stained-glass maker of Alsace, encouraged him to draw but refused to let him have his paints in the afternoons unless his morning drawing lessons went well. Under such discipline, Francis Gruber grew up to be one of the finest draftsmen of his generation, though his lines almost never described round, soft shapes. Hard, mean, digging, they hinted constantly at the pain that plagued him. His death meant the disappearance, wrote Paris Critic Waldemar George, of "the only painter who was capable of giving to French art a sense of ... the human values...
...discuss the orders it was placing, but some familiar names popped up in the news. Manhattan Dressmaker Henry Rosenfeld, who made uniforms for World War II Marine women, last week got an order for 244,000 summer uniforms for women reserves called to active duty. Nesco, Inc., maker of the five-gallon gasoline "blitz cans" familiar to U.S. soldiers the world over, prepared to turn out 150,000 a month on the later of two contracts totaling $1,700,000. The Switlik Parachute Co. had been told to double its plant facilities, speed production of a $5,000,000 contract...
...already well launched on his first tack. His father was a drawing teacher in Spain, and Pablo inherited the old man's academic skill along with his brushes. He was still a boy when he had his first one-man show, in the doorway of an umbrella-maker's shop in La Coruña. At 18 he took off for Paris, the artists' Mecca, which has been his base of operations ever since...
Same day, in Philadelphia's federal district court, Antitrust Chief Herbert Bergson went after a small company which had closely held patents: Servel, Inc., sole maker of U.S. gas refrigerators. Charged Bergson: Servel has a monopoly on gas refrigerators, through exclusive licenses from Sweden's Aktiebolaget Electrolux, founded by International Financier Axel Wenner-Gren (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948). Bergson asked the court to break up the patent arrangement. Servel's Chairman Louis Ruthenburg retorted that his company already competed with "a dozen large manufacturers aggressively in the market with refrigerators of all types, sizes and prices...