Word: chairman
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...last week: "We will roll up our sleeves and do a damned good job." The peso promptly firmed to 9.2 to the dollar. One of the Nationals elected to Uruguay's nine-man ruling National Council of Government, Nardone will get his chance to serve as its chairman, which is equivalent to being President. But doughty old Luis Alberto de Herrera, after spending all his life trying to win the government for the Nationals, will not preside over the government. As one of the three minority members of the current council ruling Uruguay in place of a President...
...five-man board of directors, and the family still has a "substantial" interest in the business. Jock Whitney is still looking for a topnotch news executive to take Reid's place, for the time being will leave control in the hands of Howard D. Brundage, board member and chairman of the executive committee...
...sell their controlling interest in the sprawling Amalgamated Press Ltd. magazine and periodical empire (72 publications). Hovering within earshot was an executive of the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial group who knew big news when he heard it; he hustled the word back to the ears of his board chairman. This week, barely a month after he got the message, hulking (6 ft. 4 in.), baby-faced Cecil Harmsworth King, 57, bought control of Amalgamated for a bid in excess of $45 million, thereby became ruler of the world's most widespread press empire...
...more direct attack on the U.S. Government was made by Ian F. McRae, board chairman of Canadian General Electric Co., Ltd. and president of the Canadian Manufacturers Association. Apparently smarting from a recent Justice Department antitrust suit against General Electric Co. involving the company's Canadian subsidiary, McRae lashed out at the U.S. for continually "interfering in one way or another with the operation of U.S.-owned companies in Canada," criticized U.S. tariff policies. Said he: "Canadian products, with few exceptions, are rigorously excluded from the rich American market by your high tariffs...
...bills, tots them up, prepares the bills for the customer, registers the return payments. Macy's may even extend N.C.R.'s system to inventory control, get daily reports on everything in stock, be able to increase its return on investment by 10% to 15%. Says N.C.R. Chairman Stanley Charles ("Chick") Allyn, 67: "The stage is set for a revolutionary change in the handling of paperwork...