Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition, it has been necessary to move Lowman over from his forward position. With height less emphasized for a center under the new ruling which gives the ball to the scored on team after a basket, the team will be at no great disadvantage with Lowman in the pivot post...
Yesterday he got another letter. This time it was from the post office asking him to bring over five cents for special handling, along with one cent postage due, for a letter addressed to him from Wayland. He had put a two cent stamp...
...months ago when the business curve was still on the rise, Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester of General Foods Corp. addressed the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Speaking not only for the makers of Grape Nuts, Post Toasties and Sanka Coffee but also, as head of the National Association of Manufacturers, for a vast and potent slice of U. S. management, Mr. Chester concluded with this prophetic declaration...
...thereupon pitched in and helped elect as President its guest of honor at the founding banquet in Cincinnati-William McKinley. Through the subsequent decades N. A. M. worked for the Parcel Post Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Food & Drug Act, Workmen's Compensation legislation and the Panama Canal. It has always stood for a bigger & better merchant marine, and probably its most notable achievement was in promotion of foreign trade in the days before the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. At one time it maintained its own commercial attaches in important foreign business centres, and its voluminous files...
After the War Mr. Chester's Greenwich, Conn, neighbor, now Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, persuaded him to enter her Postum Cereal Co. as assistant treasurer. By 1924 he was president, and it was under his direction that Postum swelled until it became General Foods Corp. with some 80 products and $74,000,000 in assets. Today as General Foods chairman, modestly ensconced in a white colonial office on the 17th floor of the Postum Building in Manhattan, a portrait of his father over the fireplace, a bust of Lincoln, his favorite character, above his silvering head, Colby...