Word: wares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chosen on the Class Day Committee were James G. Douglas, Jr., William Wetmore, Josiah Potter, Foster S. Davis, Vincent L. Hennessy, Charles B. Lakin, and James L. Ware. John Cross was the Class Secretary...
...whole there were very few "downs." This was due in part to the receptivity of the audience. When the concert began there ware only about forty skeptical listeners on hand, but by the end of the program the room was very enthusiastically full. Such responsiveness is commonplace, though, at the Adams concerts. A concert of folk music in the fall, and a concert three weeks ago of music from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries were equally well received. The sponsors deserve credit for their broadminded presentation of music of all periods and genres...
Taste for Growth. Finding uranium in fertilizer is just the kind of moneymaking operation that International Minerals and its bald, bouncing President Louis Ware specialize in. Ware, who learned the mining business from the shovel up, is a combination of scientist and hardheaded businessman, thinks researchers can ferret out untold new products hidden in the earth's drabbest minerals...
...Since Ware took over in 1939, he has spent $43 million on research and expansion, often by buying up likely-looking companies. He has built a chemical giant with 70 plants in 26 states, making everything from fertilizer for farmers to taste powders for housewives' stews. For example, in 1942, Ware's researchers, who were then extracting potash from sugar beets, discovered that one of their byproducts was monosodium glutamate. Ware bought up a small Ohio taste-powder company that was making the chemical out of molasses, and proceeded to make it his new way. Now sales...
...have boosted sales from under $12 million to $88 million in 1953, with profits of $7,000,000 (up 5,500%). International Minerals makes bonding clays for foundry use, recovers feldspar which is useful to ceramics makers, extracts bentonite (another specialized clay) for use in oil-well drilling. Says Ware: "Research is our lifeblood. With it, you open one door and find four more. How far you go depends only on your resources and your native ingenuity...