Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already a graduate of Yale and Cambridge universities, Paul Mellon, 33-year-old son of the late Andrew Mellon, multi-millionaire banker-industrialist, says he will enter St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., to "make up to some extent important gaps" in his education. --from...
Assistant Coaches: Floyd S. Stahl and Nicholas Mellon...
...high rates for sleeping car service; 3) forced railroads to pay unreasonably high prices for rolling stock; 4) prevented the roads from using lightweight, streamlined equipment made by competitors. Caught in the suit's 80-page web were Pullman Directors J. P. Morgan, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Richard K. Mellon, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., George Whitney, others-as potent a list of defendants as ever graced a civil action. (Since the Government, through reports filed with ICC, has long been aware of the practices to which it is objecting, Trustbuster Arnold considered a civil action "more appropriate" than a criminal...
More fertile than L-O-F's own fertile laboratories are those of the spectacular plastics industry. Nine years ago Mellon Institute presented Toledo Scales Co. with a urea-formaldehyde resin which combined the best features of two earlier plastics, cellulose acetate (translucent, colorable) and phenolic resin (heat-resistant, hard). Toledo Scales formed Plaskon Co., Inc., began using its plastics to replace the porcelain-enameled iron housing of its scales. But Plaskon's uses multiplied like rabbits, soon invaded gardens sacred to glass. Transparent, less shatterable, more easily molded than glass, some plastics are already used for airplane...
...Edward Ray Weidlein, internationally famed director of the Mellon Institute, chemical engineer, and World War I member of the War Industries Board...