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...Local historians maintain that the town helped popularize the word "booze." The term was coined earlier but gained wide currency when a now-defunct Glassboro glassworks made cabin-shaped bottles for William Henry Harrison's 1840 log-cabin presidential campaign. The contents were supplied by a Philadelphia distiller named E. C. Booz...
...Warren retires. Burns's background in the oil business is scanty, but he has other attributes to offer: he holds a doctorate in metallurgy from Harvard, worked his way from laborer to wire-division head at Republic Steel, became a partner in the management consultant firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton and an adviser to 30 blue-chip corporations before joining...
Management Consultants Booz, Allen & Hamilton prescribed a stiff tonic: cut down on relatives in the management, diversify, set up separate divisions, expand overseas, sell stock to the public. Miles took the advice, lured outside talent into its executive ranks, acquired an enzyme and a dermatological firm, built four new foreign plants in four years, brought out several new products, including Chocks, a flavored, chewable vitamin for children. Booz, Allen predicted that Miles could thus double its sales and profits in ten years; Miles has actually done the trick far faster. Its sales have climbed from $51.5 million...
...months ago Eastern Air Lines President Malcolm Maclntyre, 55, summoned his vice presidents to his conference room in Manhattan and warned them that he was calling in management consultants Booz, Allen & Hamilton "to see if the right people are in the right jobs." Last week, shortly after Eastern reported a $12.5 million loss for 1963's first nine months, Maclntyre decided that he himself was not in the right job. He handed in a terse one-line resignation...
...they are turning to for many of the answers (though not the decisions) is a new and influential corporate executive who is expected to combine the brains of a scientist with the intuition of a soothsayer: the corporate planner. "Ideally," says Vice President John P. Gallagher of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, "the corporate planner would have a law degree, an engineering degree, and be able to walk on water." That ideal has not yet been reached, but more than 700 U.S. companies now have formal planners -and the idea is so new that 500 of the companies have hired their planners...