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...photographer's rep in New York City. She gardened in her free time, but it wasn't until she was in her mid 50s that she really began to achieve her childhood ambition. That's when she started taking classes in viticulture, cleared land she had bought on Mount Veeder in California's Napa Valley and applied for permits to start a vineyard. Now 60, Chu has just sold her second crop to Hess winery. Next year she expects to turn a profit. The little girl who wanted to be a farmer has finally grown up, and it's only...
...program was started by autocratic Board Chairman John N. Marshall, who died last April at 59. It is being carried on by a hard-driving management team, led by President and Board Chairman Nicholas P. Veeder, 48, that is out to prove that the little fellow can still compete successfully with the giants. By stepping up the productivity of existing facilities, the company has managed to hold down the cost of expansion to $67 a ton, v. up to $150 for other steel companies that had similar programs. While other firms laid off workers during the recession. Granite City Steel...
...Highs. Steel earnings were also beginning to come back. Jones & Laughlin's President Avery Adams predicted third-quarter earnings will be 81? a share v. 47? in the second quarter. Nicholas P. Veeder, president and chairman of Granite City Steel Co., which is operating at nearly 100% of capacity, estimated third-quarter earnings at just over $1 a share for the best quarter in the last five. Said Veeder: "By the end of 1959, we expect to be up to the rated capacity of 1,584,000 tons yearly predicted for the end of our current expansion program...
...some of the answers. He was hard at work to pull Colt out of its queer hole, if anyone could. Gunman Anthony, born in Shelby, N.C., graduated from North Carolina State College into a job in a machine shop. By the black days of 1932 he was president of Veeder-Root, Inc. (mechanical counting devices) in Hartford, Conn. Veeder-Root was on the downgrade, as were so many firms, and losing money. Anthony managed to stop the skid and make Veeder-Root profitable. He is still board chairman. His strategy to save Colt: "Get out the guns...
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