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...next three years the Axelrods wove the Jeffrey Finishing Co., Woonsocket's Lippitt Worsted Mills and Dorlexa Dyeing & Finishing Co. and Pawtucket's Crown Manufacturing Co. into their empire. Last spring they got control of New Bedford's old, famed Wamsutta Mills (sheetings, broadcloths, specialty fabrics). Joe and his dad, who is treasurer, now have 3,150 men & women (including Wamsutta) working for them, and with last week's buy, they reached Joe's goal of integration...
...College. A 15-hour-a-day worker, Joe gets up at 5130 in his home at Newton, Mass., spends his off hours on his 46-ft. cruiser daydreaming up new textile tricks, like "Crown College." To pep up morale in his main Crown plant in Pawtucket, R.I., Joe built glass-enclosed smoking rooms, decorated the plant in cheerful colors, landscaped its lawns, built a playground and baseball diamond. Among New England's grimy, ancient plants it so stood out that workers began calling it Crown College...
What the Central Falls veterans had started out to get was a 20% pay raise they had been promised. When Chief of Police George Collette shrugged the whole thing off they went to see the city's political boss, old Uncle Andrew Sherry, in adjoining Pawtucket. Sherry suggested circulating a petition through the force. But as soon as they did they found themselves catching "punishment duty," guarding city dumps and traffic-free intersections...
This scrutiny of Hurley and Heller centered around their connection with the Narragansett Machine Co. of Pawtucket, R.I. - Hurley as a $12,000-a-year vice president, Heller as the Army finance officer who had arranged a $2,000,000 Government-guaranteed loan for the financially queasy company, and a loan renewal (TIME, Dec. 4). Heller, who denied knowing Hurley at the time, had a War Department official and an Army colonel testify to his honesty in the deals. Such testimony seemed enough for the Senators...
Other Varsity men who will see action for the Crimson this winter are forwards Gerry Johnson of Newburyport High and the NROTC; Brewster Wolfe of Milton Academy and Lowell House; Jack Noble of Exeter and the V-12; Ronald Wright of Pawtucket High and the V-12; guards Clyde Kelsey. Jr., of Wadena High, Minnesota and the NROTC; and Herb Fritts, of Richmond Hill, New York and the NROTC