Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breaking Point. In Riverside, Calif., Motorist John Henry Smith Jr., thoroughly weary of being involved in auto accidents, gave away his car to Patrolman Woodrow Wilson Bailey, who was investigating the latest...
Professional Engineer. Wilson took a job as a $110 a month clerk with Indiana Bell Telephone Co. the Monday after graduation. Hard work ("The night force knows me pretty well"), moderate ambition ("My only interest is in the challenge of a job, not its level") and a friendly manner ("I know them all by their first names") helped him move up fast. In 1929 he was transferred to the parent company, American Telephone & Telegraph, where he became general commercial engineer in 1942, vice president two years later...
Still sticking by the copybook, Wilson, a moderate drinker and smoker, will keep on walking at least a mile every night for exercise, taking an interest in local government and the Boy Scouts, commuting from Glen Ridge, N.J., where he lives in a seven-room house with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. His new job (salary: over $75,000 a year) will mean no change in his routine, except that "the night force will be seeing a lot more...
...three Charles E. Wilsons (no kin to each other) who are top executives of General Motors Corp., General Electric Co. and Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; nor to Norman W. Wilson, head of Hammermill Paper Mill Co., Edward F. Wilson, head of Wilson & Co., John L. Wilson, head of St. Louis Public Service Co., Laroy W. Wilson, head of Advance Aluminum Castings Co., H. W. Wilson, head of H. W. Wilson Book Co., nor to any of the dozen-odd Wilsons who head other large U.S. companies...
Except for General Motors' C. E. Wilson ($303,990) and Great Lakes Steel Corp.'s George R. Fink ($275,000), the rest of the big money earners were Hollywood workers. As usual, Hollywood has the nation's highest paid women; Ginger Rogers ($292,159) was ahead of Deanna Durbin by $30,000. (Betty Grable, last year's winner, was farther down the list with...