Word: trane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Ferebee's entourage-his head caddie, 18-year-old Art Cashetta (who carried clubs for 300 of the 600 holes), his personal physician, Dr. Charles B. Alexander (who fed him orange juice and water), his financial backer, rich Air Conditioner Reuben Trane (who had 3,000 autographed golf balls handed out en route advertising his business), his good-natured better, fat Fred Tuerk-all made merry on Broadway, Super Marathoner Ferebee went to bed, put a sign on his door: "Don't open until Christmas...
...Riding the air-conditioning boom, Trane Co. (not to be confused with valve-&-bathtub Crane Co.) reported first-half profits before taxes of $227,000, against...
Tall, ruddy, white-haired at 48, President Trane is "Rube" to all La Crosse. In addition to his workers' THANK YOU, he got an 8-ft. floral valentine from the Trane Employes' Club as "The Merry Old Chief." An engineer by training, he owns 49% of his company's stock, his wife another...
...Trane Co. makes virtually every type of air-conditioning equipment except a heating unit, its specialty being the coils which it supplies to other air conditioners, including General Electric. Trane systems have been used on such major jobs as the New York Life Insurance Co. building in Manhattan, Wrigley Tower and Sears, Roebuck's building in Chicago, the House of Representatives office building and Supreme Court building in Washington...
...applied sciences that were going to bust the slump, air conditioning is still small potatoes. The industry's total sales last year were less than $60,000,000 compared with some $38,000,000 the year before. But the rate of growth in small airconditioning concerns like Trane has been impressive. In 1933 Trane's sales were a piffling $743,000. Two years later they were $1,700,000. For 1937 the company has set a quota of $5,300,000, which would be 75% better than...