Word: upson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers of the Saturday Evening Post would be greatly disappointed if Alexander Botts, the famed sales manager of the Earthworm Tractor Co., were not up to his neck in trouble. When last heard from (in Author William Hazlett Upson's latest story), Botts had bogged a scraper so deep in the Canadian muskeg that not even his mighty Earthworm tractor could pull it out. But Botts managed it; he used rockets, for a jet-assisted takeoff...
...rockets have yet been used by the Caterpillar Tractor Co. of East Peoria, Ill., which often sounds like the "Earthworm City" of Author Upson's stories (he worked there as a mechanic). But last week "Cat" was ready to bring out something almost as powerful. It was a new model diesel engine, the biggest (12 cylinders), most powerful (500 h.p.), and costliest ($14,000) Cat had ever made...
...fastest pace after 1941, when Louis Bontz Neumiller stepped into its $75,000-a-year presidency. Unlike Earthworm's whip-cracking President Gilbert Henderson, Neumiller is a surprisingly mild-looking, soft-spoken man-a moderator more than a boss. As his friend Author Upson puts it, Neumiller "just sort of grew up with the company." He started at 19, as an engineering clerk ("I always tried to get the desk nearest the boss's door"), worked up through drafting-room superintendent, parts manager, service manager, sales executive, and, after a bitter strike in 1937, became industrial relations director...
...family took the body home, held a wake and a $996 funeral, including $15 for a ringing ministerial eulogy. Last week the family had cause to regret its lavishness. The sons & daughters had started getting cards signed "Dad" from Corrigan's Lumber Camp, Upson, Wis. Startled, two sons got in their car, drove to Upson, found August comfortably curled up on a logging-camp bunk...
Died. Dr. Leroy Upson Gardner, 67, famed director of the Saranac Laboratory and the Trudeau Foundation, who, during 32 years of research, found methods of curbing silicosis in mines and factories, showed the relationship of silicosis to tuberculosis; of a heart attack; in Saranac Lake...