Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Procter & Gamble, imposed a strict discipline on himself, rammed straight to the top. His Pentagon job requires a sense of urgency, and Neil McElroy has always been a man in a hurry: he dresses fast ("He has broken more shoestrings than any other man in America," says a Cincinnati friend), walks fast ("You can't call a walk with Mac a stroll. It's more like a run"), drives fast ("He's a good driver but he goes like hell"), flies fast, often pausing just long enough to stuff his toilet articles and an extra shirt into...
...language that does not spell TIDE. As Defense Secretary he must walk the tightrope between sufficient defense and national extravagance; McElroy's own nature is such that he could, without batting an eye, decide to spend $30 million for Procter & Gamble to buy Clorox, yet at home in Cincinnati he long kept close personal tabs on the amount of gasoline his daughters bought...
...That l%." Above all else, Neil McElroy is an expert organization manager coming to a Washington job where only an organizer can make a dent. Cincinnati's Procter & Gamble is the company of the organization man. People do not work for Procter & Gamble; they live it. The work product of each employee is measured as carefully as the chemicals in a detergent formula. Superiority, not seniority, is the basis for promotion-and the basis on which Neil McElroy was named president...
...Searching desperately for a power hitter to bat them into pennant contention, the Pittsburgh Pirates decided to gamble on the strong arms and weak back of the Cincinnati Redlegs' First Baseman Ted Kluszewski. Although a slipped disk kept Big Klu out of action most of last summer, and his batting average fell from his 1954 high of .326 to a low of .268, the Pirates took him in an even trade for their own healthier, steady-hitting (.313) Dee Fondy...
...transaction was the second of the day and both involved National League clubs. Earlier, the St. Louis Cards sent pitchers Willard Schmidt, Marty Kutyna and Ted Wieand to Cincinnati...