Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boss of the new organization is plump, pink-cheeked General Secretary Jacobus Hendrik Oldenbroek, 52. Born in Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said...
...choice: handsome, athletic Claude Adams Putnam, 59, head of the 200-man Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H., who succeeds Salt Lake City's Paint-Maker Wallace F. Bennett in N.A.M.'s top elective post. Putnam got his start in business at 16 as a machine-shop apprentice, and joined Markem when it was founded in 1911. He soon became its top salesman, and in 1929, its president. Proud that his non-union company has never laid off a single man, he speaks fondly of his employees as "the Markem gang," refers to the plant's janitor...
Harry Darby learned the boilermaker's trade in his father's small shop, was a combat artillery captain in World War I, and on his father's death in 1923 brashly borrowed $120,000 from a bank to buy and improve his father's boiler shop, groomed it into a rich and versatile steel-fabricating company...
...store grown large and prosperous, John Phillips retired and moved to California. The shelf of books in the jeweler's shop had begun as a sideline and turned into a career...
...book shop Phillips' was unique-he ran it as a combination debating and browsers' rendezvous. There was no obligation to buy anything; in fact, when the boss got started on one of his frequent philosophical arguments, commercial activity virtually ceased. The store soon became a favorite gathering place for a number of eminent faculty men: Kittredge, Hocking, Irving Babbitt, and W. Y. Elliott among others. They used to drop in to talk with Phillips about books, philosophy, in fact about almost anything. The book merchant especially enjoyed popping one of a set of philosophical problems on his visitors and drawing...