Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in 1939 disgruntled bondholders got Jumbo a new trainer, Joseph Patterson Binns. Instead of writing Jumbo off as too big to work, Joey Binns gave it jobs for which it was best suited. He installed a production-line system in the enormous laundry, saved $25,000 a year. He mechanized the housekeeping, closed off whole floors in rotation, kept a perpetual inventory of the rooms. This set-up cut the cleaning bill per room 22? a day, which for the Stevens meant $120,000 a year. But the average occupancy was still only 44%. So Binns spent...
...than in tennis: 163 championship winning racquets have come from the Tennis and Squash Shop, and among the regular customers there have been thirteen national champions. Many of their winning racquets now adorn the walls of the shop--including those of last year's national amateur champion, A. W. Patterson '32, and intercollegiate champion Kim Canavarro...
...Christmas, White House Secretary Steve Early held a special press conference to read two letters received by Folia, the President's night-colored Scotty. Wrote Noodle Van Loon of Greenwich, Conn, (enclosing a gift): "I do hope you like these cookies as much as I do." Wrote Rip Patterson of Pittsburgh (who signed himself "the Presidential mascot's cocker spaniel friend") : "A magazine* refers to you as a 'silent and undemanding companion.' Don't ever change. Your master must have few enough who fall into that category." Except for two-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...idea originally was his own. Several weeks ago he lugged the bare bones of it to Washington. He so impressed C. I. O.'s Murray, Labor's Defense Commissioner Hillman, and Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson that they asked for specific documentation, a complete report. Last week after this potent trio had reviewed Walter Reuther's report, Phil Murray passed it on to President Roosevelt...
...Daily News has also followed carefully independent breeding experiments in the U. S. on cats, dogs, horses, cows, and even mink. But experiments on human beings have been few and far between, for most doctors find it hard to take the baking soda seriously. Fortnight ago, Captain Patterson hailed a young couple in The Bronx, Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Hamton, who tried lactic acid and baking soda douches, and got what they ordered: first a girl, then a boy. The Daily News's Sex Control Editor" was forthwith deluged with letters and phone calls, answered cautiously that he could give...