Category: Historical Accounts
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Thanks to Our Pilot
Thousands of buildings were surveyed in 1931-1932-1933 by Webster engineers…;and the business never stopped right through the depression.
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Kaleidoscope of Twenty Years
Today, as I write in 1942, the world is once again at war. What adventures lie before us or what will be the ultimate readjustment of the world…; time alone will show.
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First National Convention
I’ll never forget the look on his wife’s face as she said to him: ‘John, from now on you work!'”
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From Taft to Harding
William Howard Taft was one of the ablest men ever to occupy the presidency, but he was no politician. His administration was marked from first to last by a series of controversies.
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Adoption of “Sylphon” Bellows
This was the biggest order we ever got at one time anywhere—and the equipment was selected after world-wide investigation.
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Affairs in London
While we were on the ship Mrs. Webster had presented me with a baby boy. After that the boat didn’t go nearly fast enough to suit me!
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The Kane Affair
I said: ‘Mr. Linke, it really is immaterial to me what you think. I have a business here which I have built from the ground up…;
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The “Turn of the Century”
This event, destined to revolutionize transportation and military tactics and to play the deciding role in the fate of nations, was “covered” by a single obscure newspaper
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Work and Growth
When I arrived at the mill office, the manager greeted me with a good deal of profanity, ending—’So you are the boy who invented this thing, are you? It is the worst contraption that ever came into this place.’
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The “Gay 90’s”
Today, it is hard to realize that in the “90’s”—with bicycles, horse-drawn vehicles, trolley-cars and a few motor-driven contraptions—traffic accidents and fatalities were already a problem.
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Warren Webster Enters the Heating Industry
Warren Webster was on the lookout for Opportunity. And Opportunity did come—let’s call him “Mr. Smith” to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings.
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The Years 1876 to 1888
The year 1888 is the key-year in Warren Webster’s business career. His handling of his affairs in that year—at the age of twenty-five, establishes beyond question the quality of his foresight and judgment.