Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undistinguished steel and brass implement, hammer-headed and weighing 16 oz. It has been causing Sam some embarrassment, because the name of the manufacturer stamped on it is not that of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for which Sam works. But to Sam, that putter is the difference. He borrowed it from a Chicago pro, Stan Curtis, in Tucson last February, and it cured his tendency to tighten up on the greens...
...proponents of public power. Last week, as 3,000 delegates of the Edison Electric Institute gathered at their annual convention in Atlantic City, the target shot back, with a hot, well-placed barrage. One of the heaviest salvos was fired by General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, boss of the biggest U.S. electrical equipment company, and thus sensitive to attacks on "bigness." The industry, said he, was being attacked in many cases simply because...
President Truman, snapped Charlie Wilson, "has been two-minded about bigness . . . He has said he would rather see a thousand insurance companies with assets of $4,000,000 than one company with assets of $4 billion . . . a hundred steel companies instead of U.S. Steel. This is pure nostalgia for the horse & buggy days of business, plus a fear that while bigness may be economically good, it is socially...
Bigger Business. While Truman publicly deplored bigness, Wilson continued, he went right on heading plenty of "big businesses"; an insurance system (Social Security), a bank (RFC) and a shipping system (Maritime Commission). "Apparently," purred Wilson, "he wants to make all of these bigger...
...Club yesterday elected Leonard Wilson, president; Bill Wasserman, treasurer; and Jim Weaver, secretary...