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...Navy scheduled 60 destroyer escorts for 1943; the yard ground out 90. On the Reynolds, whipped together from keel up in 24½ days, it claimed a world's record. (It reminded Hingham's 34-year-old General Superintendent, Samuel L. Wakeman, of how his father, a Bethlehem Steel vice president, had turned out a four-stacker in 45 days at nearby Squantum during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Ending | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

Squirrely Speakeasy. In Hillsdale, Mich., Charles Wakeman explained why he keeps hickory nuts beside his bed. He feeds them to two squirrels that scratch at his window every midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 26, 1945 | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Until last week Beth. Ship.'s prime mover was tall, slim, sardonic-looking Samuel Wiley Wakeman, who had been building ships ever since he graduated from Cornell in 1899. Vice president & general manager in name (Beth. Steel Head Eugene Grace is president), he had been Beth. Ship.'s active head in practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Billion-Dollar Feast | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...last week death came to Wiley Wakeman, 63, and every man in his company's big Fore River plant headquarters in Quincy knew that he was the hardest kind of man to replace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Billion-Dollar Feast | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Sixth and seventh also went to Dartmouth with Tobin and Halsey turning in 2.55.4 and 2.56.4 records. The next six places went to the Crimson in the following order: Finn Ferner, 2.58.2; Wakeman, 2.59.0; Winship 2.59.2, tied with Hunter of Dartmouth; Thomas, 3.02.4, and Skinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Edges Dartmouth by 50 Second Margin in Slalom | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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