Word: monsanto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie's Missouri mission was a tough one. First he had to show that he was no Tweedledum to Franklin Roosevelt's Tweedledee. He had to answer the criticisms of such conventional conservative Republicans as Missouri's wealthy Edgar Monsanto Queeny. At the same time he had to show the rest of the U.S. that as a Presidential candidate he really had something vital to offer beyond his known attitude of good will to men. In one sober public speech and one off-the-record session he established both points...
Edward M. Queeny, Monsanto Chemical Co. president and G.O.P. contributor, had an idea. The Missouri delegation that supported Wendell Willkie at the 1940 Convention had long since soured on Mr.Willkie's outspoken internationalism. Why not draft a set of have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife questions and demand that Willkie answer them in writing? In St. Louis, Queeny drew up nine questions, gave Willkie a ten-day deadline for his answers. Samples...
...last week the blue chips and the medium-priced stocks were hot. Day after day U.S. Steel shouldered its way into the list. Other blue chips, Westinghouse Electric, General Mills, Monsanto Chemical, reached new highs. Most top blue chips had gained ten points since the start of the year. The war-rich public was spending in the market the cash it could not spend elsewhere. And many a buyer was learning a stock could be a better value at $50 than...
...Glassless windows, made of transparent plastic sheets laminated to standard wire screening, were developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. to reduce wartime danger from flying glass. Also used at the Ensign-Bickford fuse factory, this reinforced Vue-lite promises postwar office and home partitions so light and strong that they may be easily rearranged...
Last week, as if symbolizing this momentous change, which may affect U.S. industry long after World War II is over, the Society of Chemical Industry gave its top award, the Perkin Medal, not to a leader of an established chemical firm like Carbide, Monsanto or Du Pont, but to Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, head of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co., a subsidiary of Standard...