Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some weeks ago (TIME, Mar. 2), the new President of the American Woolen Co., Andrew G. Pierce Jr., told stockholders that the company "would devote its time to the manufacture of woolen goods." He is keeping his promise. Last week, he abolished the Company's Department of Labor, which cared for the workers' welfare, published a magazine called The Booster, provided nurses and physicians for the sick, gave all employes' children a free two weeks' holiday at beautiful summer camps. All of these were hobbies of former President William Wood and his son, the vice-President...
...Spring being in the air, the President went windowshopping on F Street without his overcoat. A sample of some goods, sent by the owner of a woolen mill in Lawrence, Mass., with an offer to furnish enough free material to make the President an inauguration suit, was returned with the remark that the President liked the material and would...
Skepticism concerning the future of the American Woolen Co. has for a long time been current among business men generally, and Wall Street stock traders in particular. The resignation (TIME, Sept. 15) of William M. Ward as President, although undoubtedly due to the stated cause of ill-health, aroused further concern. Finally, the annual report of the Company for 1924 appeared as a fitting climax. It showed that the Company had had the worst year since its organization...
...husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban; under if, his little black eyes rolled and blazed alternately in pain and fury. His black-dyed beard was partially hidden in the soft, white woolen garments which swathed his bloated body. Third, came four of Raisuli's favorite wives, perched on Spanish mules and attended by three armed and terrifying Negro eunuchs...
Thirty-five years ago, Charles R. Elint began his lifelong habit of forming mergers and combines. His sobriquet "father of the trusts" has been gained by the active part which he has played in the organization of 22 large corporations, including U. S. Rubber, American Woolen, American Chicle, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Somerset Coal. Mr. Flint is now 75 years of age, but his favorite occupation still has such a hold upon him that he is now planning the largest project of his life?a $100,000,000 merger of soft-coal companies in West Virginia, involving about...