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...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...
...Waldorf-Astoria, last week the first posthumous presentation of the gold medal for ''Distinguished Services to Advertising" was made to Alfred William Erickson. Until his death at 60 last November, "Eric" Erickson was chairman of the board, McCann-Erickson Inc., advertising agency; chairman of the board, Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., floor coverings; chairman of the executive committee, Technicolor, Inc.; member of the executive committee, Bon Ami Co. Leaving acknowledgments to her dead husband's partner, Henry K. McCann, Mrs. Erickson heard him praised as: the father of the commission basis upon which modern advertising agencies operate...
...unable to persuade his fellow board members to boom Congo with advertising. They suggested that if he believed it was so good, he should buy the company. That he did, and the renamed product, Congoleum, was Erickson's first big killing. In 1924 he merged his company with Nairn Co. (cork, linoleums...
...formula that has made it the most successful U. S. builder of lightweight streamline trains. Some 57 ft. long, its desert car consists of a shiny, Diesel-powered tractor to which is coupled a 36-ft. trailer shaped much like the observation car on Budd streamline trains. Operated by Nairn Transport Co., the new busses, of which there are two, make the journey in 15 hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been shuttling across the desert for 14 years. A passenger boards the bus late in the afternoon, takes a seat...
Died. Alfred William Erickson, 60, Manhattan adman (McCann-Erickson), one of the founders of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, board chairman of Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. (linoleum); of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif...