Word: timken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which they give front-page display - while their own reporters cover local events. The papers follow a conservative line, are staunch civic boosters. The Repository has campaigned for the establishment of a professional-football hall of fame in Canton. It has been similarly attentive to the locally based Timken Roller Bearing Co., world's largest tapered roller-bearing manufacturer. "I can't remember the Rep ever speaking out against anything the Timken family wanted," says a Canton businessman. About the harshest criticism leveled at the Ports mouth (Ohio) Times, according to Editor George W. Stowell, comes from "mothers...
...plants are either wholly or partially owned by Germans; the Swiss have 15 plants, the Americans 8. German-owned Triumph employs 800 people at a corset and girdle factory in Strasbourg; other German companies are busy making shoes, office equipment, and engineering and precision instruments. America's Timken Roller-Bearing has built the largest foreign-owned plant (1,000 employees) at Colmar; Remington Rand employs 311 persons to produce electric shavers at Huttenheim; Minoc, a subsidiary of Rohm & Haas, makes ion exchangers at Lauterbourg. Wrigley will enter Alsace next year, turn out three brands of chewing...
Uncle Sam stands to become principal beneficiary of a $43,954,062 estate left by Mrs. Lillian Timken, widow of a co-founder of the Timken Roller Bearing Co. Sequestered among art treasures in her Fifth Avenue apartment until she died in 1959 at the age of 78, the wealthy recluse gave her paintings (among them a Goya, two Rembrandts, two Titians and a Rubens) to three U.S. museums, intended her principal assets (stocks and bonds) for her heirs. But she failed to set up the proper trusts and other tax-reducing gimmicks, and so an appraisal filed in Manhattan...
...however, leaders of big corporations like Weirton Steel and Timken Bearing insisted that the Republicans run behind the right-to-work amendment. The amendment, which said that employees could not be compelled to join union, drew the violent and almost unanimous opposition of the labor forces, the result that O'Neill, after defeating Michael V. DiSalle by 450,000 votes in 1956, lost by the same number two years later...