Word: booze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senior partner in the management consultant firm of Booz. Allen & Hamilton, John Lawrence Burns, 48. got a reputation for being able to get quickly to the heart of a corporate problem-and solve it. One of his chief clients was Radio Corp. of America, which Burns has advised for the last ten years. Last week RCA used Burns to solve a major problem: where to find a younger president with broad experience and knowledge of the corporation. The new president: Burns. He will succeed President Frank Folsom, 62, who will become chairman of the executive committee...
Consultant Burns started out in metallurgical work after leaving Northeastern University, went on for master's and doctor's degrees in metallurgy at Harvard (where he also taught), joined Manhattan's Booz. Allen in 1941. He has helped work out policy and organization programs for more than 30 of the 100 largest U.S. corporations, supervised basic reorganization programs for the U.S. Navy and the Veterans Administration...
...Manhattan, a rare species of old bottle was put on permanent display in an American glassmaking exhibit of the New York Historical Society. Its embossed inscription: "E. C. Booz's Old Cabin Whiskey." With a new spot in the public's eye, the cabin-shaped vessel, its neck resembling a chimney, was likely to further the popular misconception that E.C.'s surname spawned the most common synonym for strong spirits...