Word: cartwright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with many another British businessman these days, Board Chairman William Cartwright felt like a man under attack by gnats. His family's firm, Cartwright's Ltd., had been making paint in Lancashire for 235 years. His plant at Oldham had been recently equipped with paint-making machinery to turn out 1,000,000 gallons a year, but try as he would, Proprietor Cartwright could not up his production beyond a quarter of that figure. Mollycoddling unions, idiotic government policies that let Japan and Germany grab good British markets, slackness, laziness, incompetence, stupidity-these were just some...
...Cutoff Point. The telephone rang. Chairman Cartwright answered. It was a customer making an inquiry. The board chairman was just framing an answer when the switchboard operator cut him off the line. Cartwright hung up and the telephone rang again. It was another customer. The switchboard operator's piping voice cut in to explain: "I can't get any answer from the sales department, Mr. Cartwright." Chairman Cartwright's overloaded temper burst forth to Managing Director Pethybridge, who started to agree: "Of course people must go out for cups of tea in the middle of the morning...
Chairman William Cartwright mopped his brow and thought a moment. What was the now-lost customer's complaint? Something about "Light Brunswick Green"? The chairman sent for a can of the paint in question. There it was, marked with the firm's label, "Light Brunswick Green." He opened it. The paint was bright...
Born: February 10, 1896, in Norfolk, Va., only son (two sisters) of Lemuel C. Shepherd, a physician. His mother was Emma Lucretia Cartwright of Nantucket...
...enough to go to church, says the Rev. Colbert S. Cartwright of the First Christian Church in Lynchburg, Va. -a man ought to know why he is going. He asked each member of his congregation to think this over, then mail him a letter summing up the results. Sample reasons: ¶ "I go to church because I want to be identified with an institution that stands for freedom of the mind and spirit . . . that has brought light into the world and uplifted men through the ages." ¶ "I feel God's presence in the music, the sermon...