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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Resort. In Des Moines, after Donald E. Mosher broke into a filling station and found nothing of value, he put his last nickel into the telephone, dialed police to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...concession to drill wells along Mexico's tidelands near Yucatan and elsewhere. The new company was formed when Edwin W. Pauley, California oilman and good friend of President Truman, joined up with Ralph K. Davies. of the American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, Sept. 1, 1947) and Samuel B. Mosher of California's Signal Oil & Gas Co. The new Pauley company would, get 50% of all production until its drilling expenses were paid. After that, it would get 15% of the production as profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Welcome Mat in Mexico | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Three days later, Florida's New Dealing Senator Claude Pepper shocked spectators and his colleagues with an irresponsible, low-blow attack on the National Association of Manufacturers' ex-Chairman Ira Mosher. Pounding the desk, Pepper roared: "It was the poor people whose sons went to the battlefields, and a lot of the manufacturers' sons who stayed home and got rich." Said Witness Mosher quietly: "Three of my family died in the war." *Replied Pepper feebly: "Then you are an exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Rankin's Revenge | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...advise you that the vehicle in your cable-car drawing is no cable car. It is supposed to, be the old trolley which ran on Fillmore Street and for a brief, hilly stretch was hauled up the grade by the weight of [another] trolley going down. . . CLINT MOSHER San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...Karl T. Compton, Edwin R. Gilliland, and Jerome Clarke Hunsaker. The board of directors includes Ralph E. Flanders, board chairman of Jones & Lamson Machine Co. (who will also serve temporarily as president of the company); Bradley Dewey, onetime Rubber Administrator, now president of Dewey & Almy Chemical Co.; and Ira Mosher, chairman of the board of the National Association of Manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Something Ventured | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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