Word: supplier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the time he took over his father's lumber company and foundry in 1930, Kurth sought ways to make them bigger. Since his Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co. depended on outside companies for its castings, Kurth set up Texas Foundries, Inc. as his own supplier. It soon became the biggest Southern producer of malleable iron castings. The two companies now have combined sales of some $17.5 million a year...
Steel for Henry. When Henry Kaiser fell out with Cyrus Eaton, his Kaiser-Frazer Corp. lost its big supplier of steel, Eaton's Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel Corp. To plug the gap, K-F last week paid some $3.6 million for the Phoenixville (Pa.) plant of the Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co., which has a capacity of around 26,000 tons a month of finished and semi-finished steel...
...Uppers. In Sydney, Australia, Dental Supplier Kenneth Kemp decided that gravel was too expensive, paved his driveway with several hundred thousand false teeth...
Comeback. Harry Ferguson, who lost his tractor supplier when Henry Ford II bowed out (TIME, July 21, 1947), completed a new $11.5 million, 72-acre factory in Detroit. He expects to get into production in 60 days, turn out 250 tractors a day within a year...
Elliott does not intend to remain a mere wholesale supplier for long. The Roosevelts now raise 200 pigs a year and already have smokehouses to cure hams and bacon. They plan to put out their own brand (Val-Kill) of sausage, hams and cheese. A little plugging of their products should make it easy to sell all they can turn...