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...When Depression II cut production as low as 35% of capacity, the company cut its payroll almost in half, laid off 1,100 of its 3,600 workers, still lost about $250,000 in fiscal 1938's first six months. Most of this loss, thought President Robert Wilson Wolcott, might have been avoided had the company been using natural gas instead of coal and oil. For years Lukens has been wanting to use natural gas; for years it has been just 3¼ miles away from...
Brantley Holt, Jr., -- Miss Theodora Wolcott, Scotia...
...biennial highway bill, authorizing the expenditure of millions of dollars for U. S. roads. Practically untouched by human hands, the bill (this one was for $484,000,000) was unanimously passed by the House last week. There was contention on just one point. Michigan's Representative Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.) wanted an amendment that would dot U. S. highways with frequent comfort stations. Opposition came from two Democratic Congressmen, Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas, but the clause was passed, 40-38. Said Congressman Fuller: "Whether they are the Chic Sale kind...
...Carr, G. C. Cutler, Jr., Gilpin Ervin, S. M. Felton, L. Godfrey, H. B. Gardner, E. A. Graustein, A. M. Goodale, P. M. Hollister, G. G. Jones, R. P. Lewis, Captain; E. Lingard, B. Marsh, D. C. Parmenter, J. S. Parker, F. Parker, P. L. Wendell, and O. Wolcott, Manager...
...much more standardized humorist. Wolcott Gibbs is so self-depreciating that when he was managing editor of The New Yorker he kept his own copy out of the issue on every opportunity. For once an author's apologetic foreword ("How I ever came to write and collect the pieces in this book must remain an impressive mystery. Why the publisher is printing them is something he will have to explain to his God") is to be believed. Best pieces in his book, Bed of Neuroses, are the parodies. Best parodies: "Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce," "Death in the Rumble Seat...