Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfect--no unnecessary work. For Jack Blum, Eastern 440 and 220 champion last year, 1951 has been a crushing disappointment. Sophomore Frank Chamberlain, a good enough freestyler to captain any other E. I. S. L. team, faces two more years as a stand-in. Captain Ray Reid's sprinting fell off noticeably when two sophomores, Don Sheff and Dick Thoman, beat his best...
...Family. General Controls was founded in an Oakland, Calif, loft in 1931 by William A. Ray, then 26, and his brother Charles. Fresh out of Stanford University's engineering school, and with $10,000 in capital borrowed from their father, the brothers designed an industrial fuel control unit, did badly. They did better with a thermostat control for home furnaces, but not till they invented a simplified home-heater control did sales start soaring. By 1940, sales were up to $612,848. Since then more than $2,000,000 in stock has been, issued, to finance expansion of their...
...defense production steps up and the labor market tightens, the Rays are not worried about losing workers to other industries. Thanks to the incentive system, General Controls' labor turnover is only about ½ of 1% per month (v. an average 4% for the Los Angeles area). Says 40-year-old General Manager Al Ray: "This is the sort of incentive system we need throughout the land, if we are to get rolling on a maximum production effort...
...Mudlark. Hollywood's tribute to a mourning Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne) is brightened by the cockney ragamuffin (Andrew Ray) who coaxes her back to her public duties (TIME...
Other Crimson entries included Frank DeWar, John Ray, Joe Hubbard, and Jerry Blitz...