Word: coeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better at creating products than marketing them. Its scientists performed better than its managers. When Burns arrived on the scene, RCA brass bared the corporate soul and accounting books. Burns worked up 100 monumental reports suggesting changes in RCA. To launch RCA in TV, Burns advised its National Broadcasting Co. to spend freely on a few outstanding shows and fill the other hours with low-budget shows; it proved to be NBC's success formula, set the pattern for other networks. So well did ex-Teacher Burns learn his RCA lessons that when the corporation in 1957 needed...
...next year, homeowners across the U.S. besieged garden stores for poison to kill off this year's waning crab grass, spades and shovels to dig it out of their lawns, sturdy seed to protect them against its ravages again in the spring. In Chicago, Vaughan's Seed Co. estimated that its 1959 lawn chemical sales are running 50% ahead of last year. In Marysville. Ohio, O. M. Scott & Sons, biggest U.S. lawn supply house, looked forward to a $30 million year, up $6,600,000 over record 1958. Said a Scott salesman: "We're almost embarrassed...
...Says Washington Building Manager Mrs. Adeline Watson: "I'm sick of fighting. I decided to grow just crab grass. We've had wonderful luck with it.'' Trouble is that crab grass turns brown at the first frost. But Chicago's National Chemical & Manufacturing Co. has found one answer for that problem: Luminall Lawn Tint, a green paint that can be used to spray over all those brown spots...
...Louis C. Lustenberger, 54, moved up from executive vice president to president of W. T. Grant Co.. second biggest U.S. junior department-store chain (after J. C. Penney), succeeding Edward Staley, 55, who became vice chairman and chief executive officer. Pittsburgh-born Louis Lustenberger joined Grant in the standards department in 1929, three years out of Carnegie Institute of Technology. In Depression '32 he moved to Montgomery Ward, rose quickly to general personnel manager and vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley...
...Wings." Aluminum hydrofoils that lift pleasure craft from the water by creating an upward pressure at speeds of ten knots or higher were introduced by Reynolds Metals Co. and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. The wings, which come in a do-it-yourself kit, increase a boat's speed up to 30%, cut fuel consumption, make for smoother riding. Price: $390 a pair...