Word: willises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a luncheon for 142 in Pittsburgh last week Carrier Corp.'s President Lloud* Wampler flipped a switch which turned on the world's biggest private air-conditioning system: a $5,000,000 complex which cools 68 floors in the three-building Gateway Center in Pittsburgh's...
Candy & Tobacco. Real horses & buggies filled the roads when Willis Carrier, a young Cornell-trained engineer employed by the Buffalo Forge Co., founded the modern air-conditioning industry in 1902. His first client was a Brooklyn lithograph company which had trouble because varying humidity in the shop made its paper...
A few years later, Carrier set up his own company with $35,000 capital. Soon he was providing equipment for candymaking plants, dusty tobacco factories, textile mills, the film industry and hotels.' Not till the Depression did Cloud Wampler appear on the scene. Wampler, a Knox College (Ill.) graduate...
A Man's World. In Syracuse, N.Y., after Deputy Sheriff Arthur Willis stopped a car for speeding and found its four women passengers naked from the waist up, the driver explained: "Well, men drive barechested, don't they?"
Close the Eyes. There are lively descriptions of the early Vanderbilt Cup races, in 1904, 1905 and 1910, which were denounced from the pulpit but drew crowds like a magnet: "Louis Chevrolet wrapped his Fiat around a telegraph pole on Willis Avenue . . . Harold Stone, driving a Columbia, leapt the Meadowbrook...