Word: webber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown is building around a nuclous of five returning Senior lettermen: Captain Bud Finegan, Ed Buckley, Joe Romano, Ed Rothschild, and Bill Webber. He also will count heavily on three Sophomores: Don Lutze, Chick Lutz, and George Burditt...
...title-piece consists of ten propitious chapters of the novel Wolfe was working on when he died. The Hills Beyond was to be the story of the ancestors of George Webber. In these chapters Wolfe laid out a brilliant panorama of 19th-Century Southern society, its law, war, murder and myth. Somewhere past midstream in his transition from wild lyric romanticism to humanism, this prose here lost in effusive splendor, but gained in wit, firmness and control...
Among the thousands of mechanics who learned the importance of Jo blocks in World War I was a Cleveland lad named George D. Webber. In his shop only the boss had a Jo set-they cost around $1,500 then-and kept it so much to himself that Webber could not get the use of it in time to check his work. He decided he could make a million dollars by cracking old Johansson's secret. Later he decided he could make accurate gauges by machine...
...Webber had set up his first machine in a bedroom. The first blocks came out a mess, but he finally made some with an error of only eight-millionths of an inch. He cut the error down, began to sell some sets, until depression killed his market. In 1932, his mama let him build a shop in her backyard. Soon he began to peddle his wares again, doubled his sales every year. This year he expects to sell 2,000 sets, all finished by one machine...
Edward T. Buckley, Jr. '42, John C. Finegan '42, Robert A. James '41, William D. McSweeney '41, Homer D. Peabody, Jr. '41, Joseph F. Romano '42, Edward I. Rothschild '42, Arthur J. Scully, Jr. '43, Captain Francis M. Simpson, Jr. '41, George W. Webber '42, and Edward A. Herberich '41, manager...