Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proper Spirit. In Battle Creek, Mich., Robert F. Ort, who admitted setting twelve fires in the Moose Lodge clubhouse, told police that putting them out helped develop "comradeship" among the members...
Getting the Eye. Red Curtice was the heir apparent chiefly because of his spectacular job as boss at Buick. An Eaton Rapids (Mich.) boy, Curtice worked as a short-order cook, pushed a fruit cart, clerked in a woolen mill during high-school days. He worked his way through the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, and, after graduation in 1914 as an accountant, became a bookkeeper in G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division at Flint. Next year he became comptroller at 21, the youngest executive in the auto industry. After a hitch in the Army in World...
...George Humphrey, an up & coming lawyer in Saginaw, Mich., caught the eye of Dick Grant, Hanna's general counsel, and joined the company. In 1929, young Humphrey moved into the presidency. Under him, Hanna made money even during the worst years of the depression. Humphrey says: "We only do the obvious." But he has the knack of making money out of the obvious...
Records were broken. Thermometers recorded 107° in Dallas, 98° in Chicago, 100° in Kansas City, 98° in Detroit, 103° in Cleveland, 101.2° in Philadelphia, 100.4° in Boston and 96° in Hell, Mich. In New York, Weather Bureau employees, who work without benefit of air conditioning, noted a temperature of 100.8°. The New York Telephone Co. answered more than 190,000 calls from people who said...
...heat wave set off all kinds of trouble. In New Haven, Conn, and Milton, Mass., firemen had to turn up and cool off drawbridges which had expanded in the heat. Indianapolis had a plague of Peeping Toms. In Lakeview, Mich., a 16-year-old boy fainted while cutting wood, toppled into a buzz saw, and was killed. By week's end 147 people had died, mostly from heat prostration. New York police, ordered to help keep the city's water consumption down to 1,300,000 gallons a day, were driven wild by wrench-waving gangs who turned...