Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John's (Bkiyn.) 53, Manhattan...
...Dealer. Banker Shields, who had brought in the new board, was neither an aircraft maker nor, until recently, a stockholder of Curtiss-Wright. But he had other qualifications; as senior partner of Manhattan's Shields & Co., he had helped float some of the biggest U.S. industrial issues and had played a hand in some other big reorganizations, such as the New York Stock Exchange in 1938. Now, as chairman of Curtiss-Wright's executive committee, Shields's next job will be to help President Jordan lure new aircraft designers and production men to Curtiss-Wright to step...
...Into Manhattan's Commodore Hotel last week trooped 4,000 bronzed and weatherbeaten farmers and farm administrators. Delegates of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, they were there to plump for more and bigger TVA-like projects. They wanted dams and power plants along the St. Lawrence, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers. They wanted the federal government, which had spent $375 million in rural electrification last year, to spend $450 million more this year...
...week's end, the council and the International Wool Secretariat, which represented sheepmen in the British Dominions, joined forces to do something about wool: they formed a new organization, the Wool Bureau, Inc., in Manhattan. By research, the bureau hopes to find some method of treating coarser wool to give it the same properties as the finer grades...
...snorkel was devised by Manhattan's Duplex Electric Co., which has also installed two others (at the American National Bank of Portsmouth, Va. and St. Louis' Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co.). Colorado State Bank's President B. F. Clark, 89, plunked down $4,000 to get one, spent another $4,000 excavating Teller Gibson's cage. By last week, the snorkel had proved so popular that some 85 customers a day were using...