Word: monsanto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whenever she heard that a big corporation (e.g., Southwestern Bell Telephone or Monsanto Chemical) was due for a paint job, she went to the head man, but she made friends with the maintenance men, too. On a tip, she hustled to the McDonnell Aircraft plant and told President James McDonnell: "Jim, if you're going to paint, I think we can do the job better than anyone else." She did, concocting special shades christened "McDonnell maroon" and "banshee blue" (after the company's fighter plane...
...Industrialist Charles Allen Thomas (Monsanto Chemical Co.) put it: "Education . . . has gone from training for living to training to make a living." The University of California's Professor Frederic Lilge carried the analysis further into American life: "The common ground on which we may meet for mutual pleasure and understanding is narrowed . . . Instead of being plowed deeply and continuously by the art of good talk, it is planted with the purchased flowers of jokes and stories from the Reader's Digest, with radio and video...
...changes in cost-of-living items were mostly down, with Manhattan Shirt Co. cutting spring prices on some shirts by 8% and the Florsheim Shoe Co. by 50? a pair on men's shoes. Notable exception: aspirin was boosted 3? a pound by one. of its biggest producers, Monsanto Chemical...
Texas Payoff. After nearly 18 months of negotiations, Monsanto Chemical Co. and the Oil Insurance Association of Chicago finally reached an agreement on the company's claims for its plant & equipment losses in the great Texas City explosion (TIME, April 28, 1947). Total indemnity: $17,312,000, the biggest single insurance payment in history, according to Monsanto...
...Tighteners? A few days later, when the Chemical Society held a second regional meeting at St. Louis, its president, Dr. Charles Allen Thomas of Monsanto Chemical Co., gave his flock a timely talking to. He did not come right out and call the chemists dodos, but he warned them that overspecialization (the nemesis of the dodo) might make their science stagnate...