Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Don Ahrens, retired vice president of the traditionally Old Guardian General Motors Corp., agreed to carry Summerfield's suggestion to Michigan State University Professor Paul Bagwell, the Republican candidate for Governor last year and titular party head. But Ford telephoned ahead, told Bagwell to ignore .Summerfield's plan, promised aid if the Old Guard attempted to bar Bagwell from another try at the governorship...
...soon as Renault made the decision to cancel its Israeli contract, the Arab League struck its name off the blacklist, and the company was free to go ahead with a reported deal to sell Nasser 4,000 cars...
...years," says President Jusielino Kubitschek, "Brazil is going to be the world's fourth greatest power, ahead of all others except the U.S., Russia and China. We may even be ahead of China, too." Last week, with 14 months to go in his five-year term, Kubitschek was candidly proud of the humming factories, the new roads slashing through the jungle to the horizon's edge, the new cities leaping from red earth in the interior...
Speed Mad. At 7 a.m., in silk dressing gown and polka-dot pajamas, he padded down the hall of Laranjeiras Palace, his official Rio residence, to his one-chair barbershop for an hour-long ritual of shave, facial massage, manicure, interviews, English lessons, more phone calls. Ahead lay a morning of decisions: "I think you should get the Belo Horizonte-Brasilia highway ready by January instead of April. Why can't the contractors do it now and charge it to next year?" At 1:30 he ate a big lunch with his wife Sara and daughters Marcia and Maristela...
...steel strike's effects continued to mount last week, one thing was certain: except in the steel industry itself, the strike had little effect on third-quarter earnings. Automakers, tobacco, chemical, oil and electronics producers all reported new highs. For most, third-quarter earnings were running about 20% ahead of the same period last year...