Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubtless calculated, Beaverbrook, bristling like a new broom, also showed up at the office on Sunday morning, demanded to know who was on the job. Oliver-on-the-spot had a long talk with the Beaver, instantly and deeply impressed the new boss. Thereafter, Beaverbrook rarely turned a wheel without consulting Franks...
...long ago as last fall, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey realized what he had in Newcombe. When the dollar-splurging Pittsburgh Pirates asked the Montrealer's price, Rickey put a half-serious $1,000,000 tag on him; that drew a short answer from Pirate General Manager H. Roy Hamey: "You keep Newcombe; I'll keep my million." Later, before the 1949 season opened, Rickey solemnly announced that Newcombe was for sale: "The price, gentlemen, is a half-million dollars, and when I say a half million I don't mean...
...moonfaced Albert M. Greenfield, a real-estate man who became a banker, slid into the department-store business in the depression '30s. With the once prosperous City Stores Co. verging on bankruptcy, Banker Greenfield moved in to protect an $8 million loan, reorganized the company with himself as boss. Under him, City Stores mushroomed from five stores to 22, its gross from $33 million to last year's record $168 million. Profits also hit a record...
...preparation for taking over his new job at the end of this year, Storke decided to inspect all the Kennecott properties around the world, starting with the company's new titanium venture in Quebec into which-along with the New Jersey Zinc Co.-Kennecott was pouring $25 million. Boss of this project was Vice President Russell J. Parker, 52, one of Kennecott...
...ropes. As their Quebec Airways DC-3 winged its way over the rugged bush country of Quebec, it crashed into a hill. All on board-23-were killed. With a top echelon of command wiped out, shocked Kennecott directors still had not decided this week on a new boss for the company...