Word: whitcombes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make airplanes; he has the uncanny ability of finding the right experts from among his old cronies. Donald Douglas has surrounded himself with a group of congenial, practical-minded Jules Vernes. Perhaps the most important of these is Arthur E. Raymond. Son of the late Walter Raymond of Raymond-Whitcomb, he looks more like a professor than a boss. His first job with Douglas was filing fittings; now he is chief engineer. Harry Wetzel, general manager and the closest thing to a hard-hitting executive in the organization, studied industrial engineering at Penn State, subsequently served as aircraft production engineer...
...FINE SUMMER WEATHER - Catherine Whitcomb - Random House ($2). Warm, summery novel covering a warm summer day in a New Hampshire resort, by the author of The Grown-Ups. Although her grown-ups are a little too neat to be plausible. Author Whitcomb's children are shrewd, engaging, unsentimental...
...almost one-third of the newsprint made in the U. S. is made by Great Northern. Great Northern's customers include Scripps-Howard, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Sun and some 200 smaller papers. To them Great Northern's president, handsome William Arthur Whitcomb, has not been tough in making prices. Result is that he is popular with publishers but poison to his colleagues in the newsprint industry...
...Northern. It has $42,600,000 total assets, no funded debt, and an earned surplus of $16,000,000. It has paid dividends regularly since 1909. In 1936 its profits were $1,200,000, an amount not remarkable for a company of its size but very comforting to Mr. Whitcomb when he reflects that not so long ago 40% of all North American newsprint capacity was bankrupt...
Whether all this indicates monopoly in newsprint, only Homer Cummings knows. Solid, reticent Mr. Whitcomb, though he may not want to speak for Canada, says flatly: "There is no monopoly among U. S. newsprint manufacturers...