Word: stolk
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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AMERICAN CAN: William C. Stolk, 50, was born in Venezuela (where his father was an importer), went to work instead of to college. He started with American Can's New York factory as a 17?-an-hour timekeeper in 1916, went into the Army, and after World War I toured South America as a cotton-goods salesman. He rejoined the biggest U.S. can maker in 1921 as a solder-clerk, then went into selling. He rose to sales boss in Philadelphia (where he sold the world's first pressurized tennis ball cans to the Pennsylvania Rubber...