Word: bement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Labor relations had become so bad at the Niles-Bement-Pond Co. machine-tool plant in Hartford, Conn. that they could only change for the better. The company's president, Harvardman Charles Walton Deeds, 44, was good at making money (he ran a $40 stake in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. into a $1,600,000 profit). But he was stiff-necked in his dealings with employees. The C.I.O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, which was heavily sprinkled with Communist leaders, was just as tough as President Deeds. Last year their mutual toughness resulted in a bitter...
...Warner Bement Berthoff, Worthington. Ohio; Warren Bruce Cheston, Rochestor, N. Y.; Stuart Hamilton Cleveland, Hallowell, Mc.; Robert Paul Davis, Dorchester; Christopher Dean, Boston; Marc George Dreyfus, Brooklyn; Robinson Oscar Everett, Durham, N. C.; Edward Alvin Ward Franklin, New York City; Victor Mainard Kimel. Allston; Richard Gordon Kleindienst, Winslow, Ariz.; Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hamden, Conn.; Philip Maurice Stern, New Orleans; John Wermer, New York City...
...best alibi was the machine-tool industry. It too began the year as a little industry, and though it more than doubled its 1939 sales to over $400,000,000, it remained so. When the planemakers began dumping real volume orders on the machine-tool market in February, Niles-Bement-Pond (one of the biggest of the lot) could call a mere $9,000,000 backlog the biggest in its history. Most toolmakers resisted defense-expansion pressure as much as they could, wanted instead to ration their customers. Automen, normally the biggest machine-tool customers, began to worry...
...typical of the business on hand was the backlog of one of the big machine tool makers, Niles-Bement-Pond Co., which last fall got out of its antiquated 23-building plant in Hartford, Conn., and moved across town to a new factory under a single roof. N-B-P, which operates the Pratt & Whitney* tool works, last week had a backlog of $8,700,000, up 400% from last year. Its bulky president, 65-year-old Clayton Raymond Burt, who served his toolmaking apprenticeship with big Brown & Sharpe back in the early 19005, like the rest of the industry...