Word: greenfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberal Presbyterian pastor and oldtime friend of Founder Conwell. Soon ex-Trustee MacCallum began to make charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics. Like other ventures in which Businessman-Politico Greenfield is involved, the Temple din took on the vague outlines of a real-estate war. On one side were Budd, Trigg, MacCallum and Greenfield, on the other, Babcock, Parkinson, other trustees. Unhappily...
...took to such brain-crackers as how to manufacture synthetic wool from soybeans, a type of problem that made experts stare blankly but were longtime reveries of Motor-maker Ford. In the summer of 1930 Ford built him a three-story frame laboratory behind the Museum in Greenfield Village...
University scholarships to Bruno Beer, of Rome, Italy; Norman J. S. DeWind, of Aurora, Illinois; Wendell W. Galt, of Greenfield; Richard W. Snibbe, of Cambridge; Edward Wenk, Jr., of Baltimore; and David B. Aldrich, of Madison, New Jersey...
...morning last week Shipping Clerk Karl Wehn of Greenfield Tap & Die Corp. opened the company shipping room in downtown Manhattan and found that someone had been there before him. A three-foot hole gaped through a brick wall into an adjoining building. Empty were shelves and storage bins. Missing were valuable, high-speed drills and carbon-steel drills used in machine tools for airplane-engine and munitions manufacture-drills, that had been packed in cloth and straw and wrapped in brown paper, ready for shipment...
...Manhattan, however, Albert Greenfield was still regarded as a first-rate real-estate man. Last week Loft Candy Corp., in which a Greenfield-headed syndicate has acquired 32% of the stock, elected him chairman of the board. With his associate, Candy-Man Jacob Beresin, as president, Real-Estate Man Greenfield was expected to solve the real-estate problem under the Loft chain of 161 candy stores, put the company (now divorced from Pepsi-Cola-rich Loft, Inc.) back on its feet. Sighed Greenfield softly, "I would have preferred to serve Loft's in some capacity not involving a title...