Word: testers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After returning from France in 1919, George Krim, with a new set of sergeant's chevrons on his sleeve, became a regular soldier and a tankman. Over two decades he built up a quiet reputation as an engine expert, an intrepid tester of tanks. When the Armored Forces was organized in 1941, Sergeant Krim was one of the few men who knew much about a branch in which the money-shy U.S. Army had long been weak. He became an instructor. After many months somebody discovered that George Krim deserved more from the Army. Result: forthright promotion...
...complicated. . . . Anyone who can read a telephone book can read this"). Jim Stanley and Westinghouse Production Engineer S. W. ("Bill") Schmidt went to Indianapolis, where a pool of 15 local factories and shops had agreed to try the plan in a small way. Bill Schmidt was a cagey tester, did not show his detailed drawing until he was sure that the local factories had doped out the directory properly on their own hook. But in ten days he had signed ten contracts...
...chemical engineer he got a job in 1912 as a laboratory-tester at Sears, Roebuck &. Co. Donald's first job was to analyze boys' pants and chewing gum, which he frequently found together. A man of rare patience, he rose slowly but thoroughly as a merchandising know-it-all, reaching the vice-presidency in 1930. He had long since become the foremost mass buyer in the U. S. From 1928 through 1938 he bought merchandise that sold for $4,500,000,000-some 135,000 items, from tin cups to tractors, from diapers to tombstones...
...musical will be pr educed at the Boston Opera House and tickets may be purchased at the Hotel Somerset, the Wilder Tester, and the Opera House...