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...Francisco conference, and Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, Labor Progressive, were beaten, Mrs. Strum will be the only woman in the new House of Commons. She is the wife of a Saskatchewan farmer, mother of a 14-year-old daughter. A good campaigner, she defeated popular Ernest Edward Perley, Progressive Conservative incumbent, who was a three-time winner, and National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: New Faces | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Awed but not dizzied by all this is Tennessee Eastman's President Perley S. Wilcox ("Uncle Perley" to his employes). Now completing his forty-second year with Eastman, he has built his plant to 82 buildings, 372 acres, 5,000 workers (second to the Kodak Park Works, Rochester, N. Y.'s biggest plant). Last year his big plant produced some 50,000,000 Ibs. of cellulose acetate, of which one-half went into rayon yarn, one-eighth into Tenite I & II, the rest into film, wrapping sheets, lacquers. Gross: some $25,000,000. For Tennessee Eastman pioneering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLASTICS: Test-Tube Love Seat | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...NANCY PERLEY MILES Cranbrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...below the figures announced by the Fair. National Cash Register tactfully said some of its totalizers were not yet working. It leaked out that 6,000 to 8,000 Fair employes check in as visitors every time they enter the grounds, thus raising the apparent daily attendance. When Perley Boone, the Fair's publicity chief, went to greet the millionth visitor, he forgot his ticket, got in only after a long struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Fair Facts | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Engaged. Pamela Barbara May Gordon-Howley. 20, daughter of British Actress Gertrude Lawrence (Susan and God. Tonight at 8:30); to Lieut. Perley Edmund Holmes, 26, of the British Royal Engineers; in Bermuda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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