Word: wickman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dead include: Ralph B. Laird, 22, Camas, Wash.; James Leonard Bryan, Portland, Ore.; Noel L. Brown, 18, Seattle; Roger W. Young, 19, Seattle; Leonard B. Wickman, Bellevue, Wash.; David B. Haerle, Portland, Ore.; Asbjorn Reese, Seattle; Harry C. Franzheim 3rd, North Seattle; Russell H. Palmer, 27, Vancouver, Wash.; Wallace Hartley, Mercer Island, Wash.; Don Lee Garrett, Portland...
...with Hupp. This was a long way from the one Hupmobile with which Founder Carl Eric Wickman, whose sad eyes seem to be always peering through a windshield, started in 1914. An immigrant from Sweden, Wickman carried passengers on the dirt roads fanning out from Hibbing, Minn. Practically in at the birth of the bus business, his infant line grew by gobbling up his one-car competitors...
...Wickman bought a small line operating out of Superior, Wis., owned by a young man named Orville Swan Caesar. The line was unimportant, but Caesar, a onetime mechanic's helper who liked to tinker, was not. Within a year he and Wickman were running Greyhound together and had laid the foundations of the present Greyhound Corporation. They kept on buying up other lines out of profits, kept their former owners to run them. When their cash dwindled, a Minneapolis banker, Glenn Wood Traer, joined forces with them. He persuaded railroads to hedge their own futures by investing...
...into Elephant. Though the Hound is already elephant-sized, President Orville Caesar, 54, plans to keep it right on growing. As Wickman is chairman of the board of directors, most of the Hound's care and feeding is up to Caesar. He now has in the works a $20 million project for new terminals, at New York, Chicago and San Francisco, along with garages, restaurants and comfort stations...