Word: tappan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 39 years with Kennecott Copper Corp., E. Tappan Stannard, 66, decided to retire. He had joined Kennecott in 1911 as a mining engineer in Chile, risen to general manager of Kennecott's Alaska mines five years later, and moved into the presidency in 1933. Under him, Kennecott, biggest copper producer in the U.S., boosted sales from $50 million to $350 million a year...
...Walter's shop, he notified the MPs. Kasha died without going to the stewpot, but Walter landed in jail nonetheless. Ten days later a military court found him guilty and sentenced him to one month in prison. But the court's president, young ex-Lieut. Fred Tappan, promptly suspended sentence. "I am not going to send a hungry man to jail for killing a dog," he said...
...told her boss, who told his boss. Soon the case reached the ears of Major General F. A. Keating, Commander of U.S. Forces in Berlin, who told his deputy, dog-loving Colonel Frank L. Howley, to, investigate. The military court's order was reversed, and young Judge Tappan censured. As Locksmith Tietz was dragged off to jail again, his bewildered wife, with a large bunch of roses clutched in one hand and her small son gripped by the other, called on Miss Six. Betty took the flowers uncertainly, stammered through an interpreter that, really, she had had nothing...
...radio prizes. Winner of his current voice-identifying contest will get this super-combination: a Bendix washer, a two years' supply of nylons, a 1946 Mercury, a Knabe piano, a $1,000 fur coat, a round trip to New York with a weekend at the Waldorf, a Tappan kitchen range, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator, an RCA Victor radio-phonograph, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a Bulova wrist watch, a $1,000 diamond ring, maid service for a year, two complete men's wardrobes, a two-week vacation in the Canadian Rockies...
...knows most about bark canoes this week was happily polishing off his masterpiece: a book comparing the primitive canoes of America, Australasia and Tierra del Fuego. He is grey, lean E. (for Edwin) Tappan Adney, the most distinguished resident of Upper Woodstock...