Conover-Mast Publications was a New York book publisher incorporated with offices in Chicago and grew to include locations in other major cities internationally. Burdette Pond Mast Sr. and Harvey Conover Sr. were formerly magazine sales representatives who founded Conover-Mast Publications, Inc. during 1928. Their first publication was Mill and Factory magazine and by 1948, Mast Sr. became Conover-Mast's Chairman of the Board. His son Burdette Mast Jr. joined the company in 1948 and became a vice-president in 1956 after working as the publisher of the "Construction Equipment" periodical.i ii Mast Jr. would eventually become the President of Conover-Mast subsequent to the death of both corporate founders...