Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What kind of third-quarter profits could a company expect if it sold Piels Beer in Newark and Schmidt Beer in Detroit during the riot-racked period from July to September? The answer came last week, when the Associated Brewing Co. of Detroit, which was in exactly that unfortunate sales position, announced that it will have to report "a very substantial decrease" in third-quarter earnings v. last year's profit of $539,143. Associated's explanation: special circumstances...
...took it into the Industrial Welding Co. in Newark, whose sign "You specify it; we fabricate it" he had seen while driving to and from his home in South Orange, N.J. "We were a little bit surprised at first," says William Schmidt, the welding company's president. "I wondered, is this guy a kook...
...Schmidt assigned two workmen to the job. First they cut the shapes out of sheet steel with mechanical shears, tack-welded it (a process similar to basting in sewing), then arc-welded it, checking and squaring the piece along the way for accuracy. Schmidt told his men that it was a work of art. "They didn't take it too serious," he says. But they did take special care to choose unscratched pieces of steel. In fact, they did such a good job that the next time Tony wanted a box, a six-foot cube that he named...
Loving & Loafing. For Bergman, the full life revolves around three places -Paris, Rome and Danholmen, her private island off the Swedish coast. "Paris is my home," she says, meaning a verdant country estate 25 miles from the city, where Third Husband Lars Schmidt, 50, bases his operations as the Continent's leading theatrical producer. Inevitably, there are first nights and informal suppers for five...
...cuisine is Swedish, the chef is Bergman, and the vegetables are raised by Schmidt. Most of all, she says, they enjoy "being alone with each other...