Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plea for greater governmental use of academic personnel, Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler yesterday criticized the Republican Party for "looking down its long nose at intellectuals," and claimed that the Democrats would reverse this policy in 1961, "after the victory which I confidently expect...
...replied the twelve firms representing the steel industry. It would be "completely unlawful" for them to freeze prices, said the firms; nor had they any intention of granting wage boosts, "the primary cause" of inflation. But not all steelmen were so sure that the industry could not freeze prices. Chairman Joseph Block of Inland Steel, one of the twelve companies negotiating, said that if the union held the line on wages, "that would enable us to hold the line on steel prices...
...taken by General Motors Corp. Chairman Frederic G. Donner in 1958. Donner got $373,508 in salary, fees and bonuses v. $442,500 in 1957. Ex-President Harlow H. Curtice got $354,585 last year, $266,515 less than...
General Electric's first-quarter profits were up 7% over last year, announced Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner, to 60? a share v. 56? in 1958. Ford Motor Co. reported the best first-quarter and the second-best quarter in its history, rang up consolidated earnings of $2.46 a share v. 55? last year. Du Font's President Crawford H. Greenewalt told stockholders that the company's first-quarter earnings increased "perhaps 70%" on a 22% rise in sales. Said Greenewalt: "In 1959, sales will be substantially ahead of those realized in 1958 and will perhaps establish...
...angle at which one leans over the crystal ball-and everyone in Hollywood has an angle. "Conditions in the movie industry," says redoubtable Independent Producer Sam Goldwyn, "are worse than I have ever known them in the 47 years I have been connected with motion pictures." Says Paramount Pictures Chairman Adolph Zukor: "The future of motion pictures has never been brighter." Last week Hollywood could split the difference, find plenty of signs that the movie industry, for all its problems, is healthier than it has been in many a postwar year...