Word: spencer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected to do this was a Kansas City coal man named Kenneth Aldred Spencer, president of the Spencer Chemical Co. He got Jayhawk on a lease with an option to buy for $20,000,000, two-thirds of the original cost of the plant...
...hard-driving Kenneth Spencer, 44, was a newcomer to the fertilizer business. But he was no newcomer to Jayhawk. In fact, Jayhawk was his baby, born in 1941. One day Spencer, who was then helping his father run the four-state activities of their Pittsburg and Midland Coal Co., got a telephone call from the War Department in Washington. Said he later...
...Spencer took the job, set up Military Chemical Works, Inc. (with himself as president), pitched in. Jayhawk was completed early in 1943 - 3½ months ahead of schedule, soon was running at 140% of designated capacity...
After the war ended, Military Chemical continued to run Jayhawk, turning out nitrate fertilizer at the rate of 14,500 tons a month for export by the Commodity Credit Corp. But Spencer saw a chance to build up a new business. So with the financial backing of Manhattan's J. H. Whitney & Co., he bought his baby...
...Ivan & Spencer. In The Pursuit of Love, Author Mitford draws the political stings from most of these flesh & blood characters, remodels them into a charmed family circle that is as sparkling and daft as a fairy tale. In addition to a lovely heroine who does just what the title suggests, Pursuit stars one of contemporary fiction's best-loved character types-a father who combines the behavior of Ivan the Terrible with the heart of Spencer Tracy...