Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banking. The company was named for Mark Alonzo Hanna, Ohio's great Republican political power, who owned and ran it until he died in 1904. Humphrey resigned from his father's law firm to become general counsel for the Hanna Co. in 1918, when it was an ore and coal business. He was made a partner two years later, executive vice president in 1925, president in 1929, chairman of the board last May. The company lost $2,000,000 the year before Humphrey took over as executive vice president, has made money every year since. He sailed...
Family & Early Years: Born in Portland, Ore. of Western pioneer stock (his grandfather came to Oregon for the Hudson's Bay Co. in the 1840s). He was christened James Douglas, but dropped James when he was a youth. Father was a carpenter and young McKay quit high school to help with the family income. He delivered papers, drove a butcher wagon, worked as an office boy for the Union Pacific, ran a small laundry. Worked his way through Oregon State, where he concentrated on agriculture. In 1920 went to work as auto salesman, within two years was sales manager...
Empty Stores. In an upper-level Cleveland suburb, 28 new houses completed last spring still stood vacant at $38,000, although the builder had sold others by trimming prices. In Detroit, housing permits this year were 40% fewer than last year, and Portland, Ore. Realtor Charles Paine reported that his home market was "just marking time." Sacramento, Calif, and southeastern Florida, where buyers were snapping up medium-priced homes as fast as they were built, were exceptions...
Maras started his football carcer in Hibbing, a small town in the Minnesota iron ore country. He passed up college opportunities in state institutions for Duquesne, in Pittsburgh...
BERNARD K. FRANK Portland, Ore...