TUESDAY OCTOBER 29 1946 39 years ago today Charles Deere died, so said Burt Peek at the quarterly Director's Meeting this morning. Frank Silloway was elected Senior Vice President of Deere & Co and Bruce Lourie Vice President in charge of sales. The meeting on the whole was optomistic but it is thought farm prices will drop some next year, which will of course affect our business. It looks as though our volume would be about $146000000 for the year just ending and our profits about $9,000,000. Charley Wiman thinks our travellers will be suing airplanes before long, and wants to try one out in some territory. Charley gave me what he called a Christmas present, same as for several years Mrs Butterworth bave me a very elaborate dinner for 30. The Directors of Deere & Co and their wives. Charley Wiman was [Place card: Mr. Brown] Master of Ceremonies and all the men were asked to make a short speech.

Creator

• Brown, Theophilus

Language

• English

Identifier

• 1946_2_132
• MS02.01.26.348

Keyword

• diary

Year

• 1946

Date created

• 1946-10-29

Related url

•  https://digital.wpi.edu/show/qv33s1060

Resource type

• Image

Source

• MS02.01.26.348.388

Last modified

• 2023-09-05