Word: norton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what really was then but is not now the Tin Can Trust. American Can promptly made the mistake of raising prices all around, which not only irritated Roosevelt I and the best can customers but also attracted scores of competitors into the field. One thus attracted was Edwin Norton, who had sold out to the Trust and urged others to do likewise. Mr. Norton had solemnly agreed not to re-enter the can business for 15 years or within 3,000 miles of Chicago but nothing was said about setting up his son in business. So Mr. Norton was largely...
RESHAPING AGRICULTURE?O. W. Willcox?Norton ($2). Closely-reasoned study of U. S. agricultural problems with a definite thesis regarding their solution...
Fair, clear and accurate, for the most part, was TIME'S account of the Pacific Coast longshoremen's strike (TIME, July 16, p. 12). But it was not "Norton, Lilly's Pier 38" on San Francisco's Embarcadero where the first attempt to open the port was made by the Industrial Association, but rather McCormick Steamship Co.'s Pier...
...years later the Britons returned to the attack. Dr. T. H. Somervell and Lieut.-Colonel E. F. Norton reached 28.200 ft. Somervell stopped, gasping horribly. Norton struggled on a few yards, reached the highest point from which any man has returned alive. He was snow-blind for days. The same year G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine started up from Camp No. 6. As they approached the peak a lone observer below saw them enveloped by a mist cloud. No one ever saw them again. It was Mallory who had answered for all Everest climbers when someone asked...
...next expedition was led by Hugh Ruttledge in 1933. It set up a camp higher than any previous climbers had done, fought valiantly against gales, blizzards and avalanches, turned back short of the Norton-Somervell mark. F. S. Smythe, who had conquered 25,447-ft. Mt. Kamet two years before, reached...