Word: rockford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockford...
Even more unmistakably different from N.A.M.'s usual frostily Big Business façade was the attitude of its newly elected president, Robert M. Gaylord, who heads Rockford, Ill.'s small Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. Early-bird reporters flocking to N.A.M.'s press room caught his easy reply to a worried Old Guard trying to coach him on how to avoid "embarrassing questions." "They can't ask me any embarrassing questions," said Bob Gaylord blandly. Nor could they...
Wrigley is starting out with only four teams, playing a circuit of war-busy towns within some 100 miles of one another: the Rockford (Ill.) Teachers, South Bend (Ind.) Blue Sox, Racine (Wis.) Belles, Kenosha (Wis.) Shamrocks. They will play 108 games this summer, with a post season play-off for the championship...
Last week, in the season's opening double-header at South Bend's Bendix Stadium, the Blue Sox got off in front with two orderly victories over the Rockford Teachers. Next night, in the second doubleheader, some of the polish wore thin. Despite Helena Rubinstein and Mr. Wrigley, two of the ladies got into a fish wife argument that nearly ended in a fist fight...
...Harrington twins have four subcontracts, have given jobs to two brothers-in-law and five other employes, who keep the same hectic hours and share the profits. Says Rockford's local WPB director: "They're doing a swell job. I don't think they knew what they were getting into when they started, but they had the nerve to make a success...