Word: wesson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive is impressive. Though tomatoes still account for nearly 25% of Hunt's sales, Simon has relentlessly expanded the company's horizons over the past decade, raised its sales from $82 million to $400 million. Hunt is now the largest refiner of cottonseed oil in the U.S. (Wesson Oil), the nation's second-biggest matchmaker (Ohio Match), the largest paint manufacturer and distributor in the West (W. P. Fuller), and the' West's second-largest maker of glass containers. It also owns important interests in areas as remote from the tomato as magazine publishing (McCall...
...company that made the matches: Ohio Match. That led him into lumber investments, and at roughly the same time he logically acquired companies that could make his cans and bottles, lithograph his labels and use his tomatoes for catsup. His biggest merger came in 1960 with Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Co., and last year Simon took over W. P. Fuller. While studying rotogravure printing for Ohio Match, Simon got interested in McCall Corp., bought a 36% interest in the company. He has tripled McCall's profits largely by reorganizing its printing operations, and has helped make McCall's magazine...
...your goddamned head off." The 6 ft. 2 in. Johnson felt no knife, but not stopping to ask questions, knocked Ware off him with his left arm and then proceeded to shoot him three or four times in the neck and shoulder with his 38 Smith and Wesson...
Died. Carl Reinhold Hellstrom, 68, president since 1946 of gunmakers Smith & Wesson Inc., a Swedish-born engineer who joined the company in 1931, found it with no blueprints for its weapons, no research or engineering department, no catalogue of its thousands of tools, by World War II had so changed things that Smith & Wesson cornered 75% of U.S. Army revolver orders, has since all but pushed rival Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. out of the sidearms business; of a heart attack; in Newton, Mass...
Before SMERSH opens a file on me, rendering a future trip to Russia hazardous, may I hasten to point out that I relinquished my "00" number and handed in my Smith & Wesson .38 as long ago as 1947, when I left the army...