Word: hibbard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he raised among friends and business associates) Gross bought Lockheed, had the grass cut, put the watchman back on pay and went to work. From Stearman he hired brilliant, witty M. I. T.man Hall L. Hibbard to head his engineering department. In charge of sales he put smart Carl B. Squier, who had sold Lockheeds for the old company in every corner of the earth...
...biggest wholesalers is Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. of Chicago. Its president, Charles John Whipple, has always been distressed by the confused conservatism of hardware retailing. In the last few years he has persuaded 300 of his customers to let him remodel their stores, put their goods out where the customers could see them, make shelves and counters a little more presentable. Last week Mr. Whipple's ideas about retailing culminated in a full-sized, completely outfitted hardware store, set up to the astonishment of the Illinois Retail Hardware Association convention in a display room of Chicago's Hotel...
...woodwork was bleached oak. The walls were pastel blue. The goods were displayed on the counters in grocery-store fashion. In the back was a storeroom. The price was $6,500 for the store (which naturally did not include the building), $3,500 for the stock. In two days Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett sold nine stores...
...buyers had to do was sign a check and indicate where they wanted to start business. Mr. Whipple breaks even on the stores, but the buyers are then on terms of such intimacy with him that he thinks they will go on buying their hard ware from Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett. Says he proudly, looking at his stock on his new shelves: "Everything is in easy reach...
Irene's husband, Supreme Court Justice Carter Hibbard (Walter Connolly), has reached the time of life when his chief interests are chronic indigestion and listening to the Whoops Family on the radio. But Lucy realizes that the only way to keep Irene from booming young Senator Keane (Victor Jory) into a Presidential threat is to inaugurate a rival boom for Irene's husband. Last-minute legerdemain with a previous marriage of Irene's cuts short the boomeranging boom by intimating that, as husband of a woman whose foreign divorce has no legal standing, Justice Hibbard has been...