Word: wesson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poisoned atmosphere is even reviving the specter of union violence. Fearing attack, Miller recently gave up his Washington home to seclude himself in an apartment in Alexandria, Va. When traveling into opposition strongholds, he says he packs a Smith & Wesson .38 automatic under his left shoulder. Trbovich says he was clubbed over the head recently while entering the Burlington Hotel in Washington; in Hazleton last month, he stayed behind a bolted door in an isolated wing of a motel. The power struggle will probably not be resolved until the next U.M.W. presidential election in December 1977-unless it is settled...
FIREARMS. In the Hearst-Yoshimura apartment police found two M-1 carbines, a sawed-off shot gun, a Browning 9-mm. pis tol and two .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolvers. The Harris apartment contained an even bigger arsenal: five .38-cal. revolvers, three M1s, three 12-gauge shotguns, two 9-mm. pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition...
Unchecked, Moore proceeded with her plan. She arrived in Danville about 11 a.m. to purchase a chrome-plated .38 Smith & Wesson revolver from Fernwood for $145. She paid by check. He found her "in good spirits," although she claimed she was in a rush. "I had no way of suspecting that this gal was going to go out and commit the completely crazy act that she did," he insisted later. "Can you imagine it? A John Birch officer selling guns to radical kooks." Moore also picked up some cartridges, although she seemed concerned when he had only target loads...
...shake up the corporation that he was chosen to run in 1969 with the strong support of Norton Simon, who put it together. Soon after, Simon sold out his interest to devote himself to art collecting. Mahoney, now 49, took charge of a loose group of enterprises-Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry soft drinks, Johnnie Walker Scotch and other liquors, Redbook and McCall's magazines, David Susskind's television-production firm (Talent Associates) and even companies that manufacture tin cans...
...Hunt-Wesson's line was also enriched with profitable new convenience brands. One big seller is the Snackpack pudding, concocted of such ingredients as food starch, artificial color, artificial flavor and preservatives BHT and BHA. In all, N.S.I.'s sales in the past four years went from $940 million to $1.2 billion, and its earnings climbed by 85%, to $50.5 million. Says Mahoney: "Most companies are satisfied if they do not lose, but I was always...