Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board changes hands each time the White House does. Result: profits ($7.2 million last year) are way off the chemical industry's pace. To remedy this, Aniline's new, Kennedy-appointed board last week chose as chairman and chief executive officer U.S. Industries Chairman John I Snyder Jr., 52. A strong Democrat and an executive of proven skill, Snyder built the highly diversified U.S. Industries out of Pittsburgh's old Pressed Steel Car Co. Says he: "I don't think Kodak has known that Ansco was around-but it will...
...first washing machine-a hand-powered model -in 1907 as a sideline to Founder Fred L. Maytag's efforts to produce farm machinery and, later, automobiles (both long since dropped). The company was just one of 100 washing-machine producers for 15 years until Chief Engineer Howard Snyder perfected the first machine to wash clothes by violent water action rather than rubbing and squeezing as the early machines did. In 600 days of hard selling, Maytag made his company the world's leading washing-machine maker. He kept control of the company until he died...
...year the wood-eating insects destroyed $250 million worth of U.S. property, more than the national loss from arson, tornadoes and lightning-and more than twice the damage the bugs did only a decade ago. Furthermore, encouraged by milder winters, termites are pushing steadily north, reports Dr. Thomas Elliott Snyder, 76, research associate of the Smithsonian Institution...
...much as the mild winters, man himself is to blame for the termites' expansion north, says Snyder. "Advancing civilization disturbs the balance of nature," he said last week, "by clearing land, destroying the natural breeding ground of termites in dead trees and plant roots. Naturally, they move to buildings, where they can work and eat the year round and go almost undetected...
...shrewd administrator: he accepted his new $25,000-a-year job only after insisting that the regents carry out all the Kerr-Gardner recommendations, give him full power to aim the center toward "real eminence and distinction." No sooner had the regents agreed last week than President Snyder resigned his own $24,000-a-year job. Said he a bit sadly: "The stage has now been set for the long pull toward greatness...