Word: upson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company's growth was the work of two men with strikingly different personalities. Maxwell Mayhew Upson. now 77 and board chairman, joined the still-wobbly firm in 1907 as secretary and general manager, soon had it on its feet. In 1911, searching for a man to take charge of a tough dock-construction job. he hired an engineering prodigy, who. at 24, had supervised the building of four railroad tunnels under the Hudson River. That was the beginning of a prosperous partnership between Upson and William Vincent McMenimen, who, at 72, is vice-chairman of the board. Each...
WALTER R. UPSON...
Across the street, Mrs. Millare C. Upson was putting her vacuum cleaner away when she heard a "boom" and looked out the front door. "The Maas home just seemed to settle right into its basement. Then there were the awful flames and the smoke." Two men working nearby dragged the housekeeper out into the yard, her clothes on fire. More explosions rocked the area. A house down the street blew up, then another, and another. People scrambled into the street dodging flying timber and glass. The blasts spread, rolled on like giant popcorn, too fast to count. A boy staggered...
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Memorial Church in the Yard. Dean Sperry will read the service and the Rev. Steven Upson will speak...