Word: olin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will Aluminum Co. operate these plants. They belong to a newcomer to aluminum called Kalunite, Inc. Kalunite is a corporate cousin of Western Cartridge Co.; both are controlled by Olin Corp., bossed by 80-year-old, physically feeble, mentally strong Franklin William Olin. Western Cartridge, reportedly the second-largest privately owned company in the U.S. (first: Ford), daily makes over a million shells at its sprawling East Alton, Ill. plant. Through Western Cartridge, munitions-man Olin also controls New Haven's famed Winchester Repeating Arms Co., likewise busy on defense orders...
...original Government suit was also filed against Drs. Morris Fishbein, editor of the A.M.A. Journal, Manager Olin West, a number of other executives. After deliberating twelve hours, the jury acquitted the doctors, but convicted the A.M.A. and its Washington branch. At week's end, sentence had not yet been imposed on the organizations; they face a maximum fine of $5,000 each. Editor Fishbein and Manager West, who plan to carry the case to a court of appeals, made no comment on the verdict, said merely that the A.M.A. "will continue to do its utmost for ... public health...
...contribution to the current Sibelius festival, Columbia has brought out a new recording of the Second Symphony played by Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic. Whatever one may think of this symphony--which has elicited for Olin Downes the tribute of "a symbol of the ancient faiths and indomitable spirit of man"--and from other critics something less than blind enthusiasm--whatever, I say, one thinks of it, one cannot deny its dramatic power and effectiveness. This dramatic power is what John Barbirolli fails to recreate. He is in general a pedestrian conductor, lacking the ability to envision a whole...
Next great food crusader was Wilbur Olin Atwater, who in the 1870s, following European methods, figured out the number of calories different occupational groups should consume. No vitamin faddist, Atwater urged U. S. workmen to fill their calory quotas with greater "energy-yielders"-meat, potatoes and bread-instead of watery stuff low in calories...
...Tanglewood he brought Composers Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith to teach composition; G. Wallace Woodworth, Chairman of Harvard University's Department of Music, for choral instruction; Herbert Graf, Metropolitan Opera Stage Director, to teach opera dramatics; New York Times Music Editor Olin Downes, Composer Roy Harris, and many another to lecture. By last week the month-old centre, with its 300-odd students, had worked its creator up into a well-turned ecstasy. Said Koussevitzky: "How can I speak of something part of myself, so much of my heart, a cherished ideal? It's like my child...