Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Musician Wolcott (TIME, Jan. 25) of Disney's party, he wanted to borrow an umbrella, drew a picture of it, and the Argentine innkeeper brought him mushrooms...
With exciting samba music adapted by Disney's able Musician Charles Wolcott, and incredible bursts of color that flow onto the screen as the film unfolds, Saludos painlessly tells North Americans about South America...
Because their drawings speak an international language, Disney's party had little difficulty making itself understood. But one rainy day Musician Wolcott tried to explain to an Argentine innkeeper that he wanted to borrow an umbrella by drawing one. The innkeeper nodded, soon returned with a broiled steak and mushrooms...
...this scene came balding, chunky, nervous-quick Robert Wilson Wolcott, 50, who took a swing in the Navy and Bethlehem Steel, worked up to be Lukens' president six years after he mar ried a Huston girl. As the big boss Wolcott began to: 1) specialize in oversized hot rolled plates, 2) set up fabricating subsidiaries to give Lukens a broader market. Both schemes clicked and the huge 206-in. mill was soon thundering out big plates for merchant ships, machine tools, railroad equipment, etc., the fabricating divisions prospered on special castings, all-welded cylinder blocks...
Even so, cautious, farsighted Robert Wolcott is not a happy man-he knows that Lukens' plate sales are 100% munitions, will nose-dive at war's end. The white hope: the fabricating divisions, which now account for almost 40% of total sales, are big enough to make Lukens a husky manufacturer of peacetime products...