Word: mouat
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Ricardo Gutierrez Mouat...
...Into the presidency of Parker Pen Co. stepped Bruce Mouat Jeffris, 56, a veteran °f 33 years with the company and boyhood friend of Kenneth Parker, who is moving over to chairman. A graduate of Brown University and the Navy, Jeffris has been vice president and treasurer for Parker since 1947, is expected to hold down the presidency until Kenneth Parker's son Daniel, 27, is ready to take over. Directors last week moved ex-Marine Dan Parker, the third generation in the company, up from secretary to executive vice president...
...Baby. Two years ago Mouat was a wooded mountainside, green with Douglas fir and jack pine. Its population consisted of jut-jawed old Prospector Bill Mouat and his wife. Then the U.S., needing chrome sorely, found it at Mouat. Japs had choked off the chrome supply from the Philippines; the Nazis blocked the Mediterranean route from Turkey, Nazi subs imperiled shipping from South Africa. The Government moved in with old Prospector Bill...
...Mouat, Metals Reserve Co. cleared away the hillside, honeycombed it with six levels of tunnels, perched a mill twelve stories high in the canyon below. Mouat would supply two-thirds of U.S. needs, and never mind the cost...
Shutdown. But Allied victories in North Africa and Sicily brought death to Mouat. Chrome could be shipped again more cheaply than Mouat could mill it. The mill closed down. Workers wandered off to work in Butte's copper mines. The Anaconda men who operated Mouat for the Government went back to their old jobs. All that was left in Mouat, three months after production began, were guards, maintenance men and their families, an occasional bear nosing through empty garbage cans, and old Bill Mouat and his wife...