Word: nairn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November executors for the Ellis P. Earle estate (paint, exporting, mining, banking) sold 81,575 shares of Phillips Petroleum to about 750 investors, followed through by parceling 21,400 shares of Congoleum-Nairn to 176 buyers. Total value of the lots...
Albert Wahl Hawkes, 64, New Jersey, president of Congoleum-Nairn...
Businessman Politician. New Jersey's Republicans had their closest primary ever. By noon next day Albert Wahl Hawkes, chairman of Congoleum-Nairn, knew that his party had chosen him for U.S. Senator over New Jersey State Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson. Of his flyer in politics, Industrialist Hawkes says he hopes the voters will think: "Here's a fellow going on 64. Certainly he isn't trying to become a political boss." Albert Hawkes's interests lie in the field of labor relations (he resigned as a management member of the War Labor Board to enter...
Said the Chamber's retiring president, indomitable Albert W. Hawkes (Congole-um-Nairn): "We want to preserve our system. We are not fighting for a new, unknown system." A resolution to curb bonuses as well as wages for the duration produced the first floor fight in seven years of Chamber conventions. Lammot du Pont declared: "The point that irks me most is the idea of not being allowed to pay extra compensation for more and better work. A bonus does not affect prices, it reduces the cost." The Chamber also fiercely debated the open shop before demanding legislation...
...industry-Walter Teagle, chairman of Standard Oil; Roger Lapham, chairman of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co.; Albert W. Hawkes, chairman of Congoleum-Nairn; Edward J. McMillan, president of Standard Knitting Mills...