Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Napoleon Bonaparte, 56, quit the Rock Island railroad maintenance crew after 29 years. A Chinese gentleman in Canton divorced all four of his wives for "differences of opinion." And a man in a Cleveland tavern got into an argument with the bartender over a glass of beer, so he went outside, drove his car through the plate glass window, and parked in front...
...Late. The Reds saw it coming, but they were demoralized by its suddenness and decisiveness. Communist Party orders were for them to stay and work within the C.I.O. In the last hours before Murray got down to business in Cleveland's big limestone convention hall, they tried to save themselves with pleas for forgiveness and promises to be good...
...sale. Around the floor word spread that the House of Morgan and the New York banks had put a cushion under the market. The market rallied. It looked as if the Morgan "miracle" had staved off disaster. "Business," announced Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W.Mellon, "is fundamentally sound." The Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres said there had been a security panic, with no economic basis. Banker Lament pronounced it only "a little distress selling." The National City Bank's Charles E. Mitchell saw "nothing fundamentally wrong with the stock market...
When Corn Products Refining Co. set out to build a new plant at Corpus Christi, Texas two years ago, it wanted to find some new solutions to the old problems which have always plagued the grain-processing industry-explosive dust and dangerous fumes. It gave the job to Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., builder of the thermal diffusion unit* of the Oak Ridge atom bomb plant. Ferguson engineers decided that the best way to eliminate dangerous working conditions within enclosed spaces was to build a plant without walls...
Divorced. William Veeck (rhymes with wreck), 35, canny Barnum of baseball, president of the Cleveland Indians since 1946; by Eleanor Raymond Veeck, thirtyish, onetime Ringling Bros, circus equestrienne; after almost 14 years of marriage, three children; in Tucson, Ariz...