Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipyard, worked for Erie R. R., then shot up as an assembly man for Henry Ford. Quitting as manager of all Ford plants in 1921, he soon joined Chevrolet. A tall, slightly stooped man with a big walrus mustache, Motorman Knudsen is a genius of production and a hero to all good Danish schoolboys. John C. van Eck, president of Royal Dutch-Shell's big U. S. subsidiary, Shell Union Oil Corp., was elected to the specially created post of executive committee chairman. He was succeeded by R. G. A. van der Woude, Dutch-born head of a Shell...
...more information had become available and companies were limiting 'personal' insurance to the amount which could be purchased on the ordinary life plan by 20% of the man's income." Lives known to be insured for $1,000,000 or more include those of Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Cineman Will Rogers. Some jumbos deceased since 1923: Julius Rosenwald, William Wrigley Jr., John Thompson Dorrance...
...American Spectator appeared an autobiographical article called "Why I Changed," by James H. R. Cromwell, one-time millionaire socialite. Cromwell is the stepson of Edward Townsend Stotesbury, head of J. P. Morgan's Philadelphia affiliate, Drexel & Co. He married the daughter of Motorman Horace E. Dodge, entered Drexel & Co., but quickly determined to head his own business like his stepfather and father...
...grew weary of being a clerk and counting nickels and dimes. I wanted to deal in millions like my two idols. I wanted to go into business for myself. I wanted to be my own boss and make millions." When Motorman Dodge died, Cromwell organized a company to finance retail sales of Dodge automobiles. The company had a turnover of $30,000,000 in three years, was sold at a profit after James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler for $160,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street...
...modest Floppy's opinion of his own specialty. Good shot: Lawyer Stevens arresting the motorman of a street car for speeding...