Word: borges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have long since washed out most independent laundry-machine makers, now stands a strong second in the billion-dollar industry. Outstripped in sales only by Whirlpool Corp. (RCA Whirlpool, Sears's Kenmore), Maytag, in its own field, ranks ahead of such giants as General Electric, General Motors (Frigidaire), Borg-Warner (Norge) and Westinghouse...
...discussion of the business outlook sponsored by the First National Bank of Chicago, President Ralph Lazarus of Federated Department Stores predicted that steadily rising personal income would continue to improve retail sales, but added: "We foresee substantial growth, but not a sharp, runaway boom." President Robert S. Ingersoll of Borg-Warner Corp. looked for only a "gradual and minimal" upturn in durable goods. And Chairman James Price of National Homes Corp. wrapped his gloom in jargon: "Commercial construction, in our opinion, is enjoying what appears to be a terminal bulge in the current cycle. More and more cities have built...
...stone -without the help of hairdressers. They wash their own hair at home, set it with enough metal to plate a light cruiser, and then wonder how to dry it. Adding to the available hand dryers (wearying) and the portable hood models, the Norge division of Borg-Warner now offers a new solution -an attachment that snaps over the clothes port of any Norge laundry dryer...
...private life as in his political career, persistence paid off handsomely. In 1933, after three years of hard selling, Goldwater wangled the answer he wanted from pretty Margaret Johnson, the daughter of a wealthy Borg-Warner Corp. vice president. They were married next year, now have four children...
...Spartan suggestions, however, did not appeal much to businessmen-despite the fact that he added that the Kennedy Administration hopes to present to Congress next year a program of income tax relief for individuals, including those in high tax brackets. Snorted Judson Sayre, chairman of the Norge Division of Borg-Warner: "You can't run businessmen like the Army. How can you put executives on per diem? I can't travel on $30 a day unless I eat only Metrecal or the Government stops subsidizing elephants in Laos and starts subsidizing hotels for executives in the big cities...