Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other business interests-and last month some of them began coming home to roost. A Washington vending-machine firm named him as a defendant in a $300,000 civil suit. In short, it charged that Baker used his influence to control vending-machine contracts let by a Government aerospace contractor and that Baker once told a North American Aviation representative "that he was in a position to assist in securing contracts" for North American...
...Wilson as chief executive in 1950 and promptly ordered the most drastic reorganization in G.E.'s 71-year history. Cordiner did not radically change the product mix, which is spread almost equally among heavy electrical equipment, electronics, consumer goods and defense orders (G.E. is the fifth biggest defense contractor). But he decentralized operations and management, making each of 112 department managers a minor president with responsibility for his own budget, pricing and policies. The managers answered to a lean headquarters staff in Manhattan, which was left free for more long-range planning. Cordiner ruthlessly removed managers who stumbled...
Married. Dinah Shore, 46, TV's tiptop thrush; and Maurice Fabian Smith, 41, building contractor; both for the second time; in Redlands, Calif., two days after her divorce from Actor George Montgomery became final...
Competition's tropical-like growth stems mostly from the new economy's technological explosion, which is rapidly outmoding the methods, machines and products of only yesterday. Courtlandt Gross, 58, chairman of Lockheed Aircraft, the nation's biggest defense contractor, loses exact count of the division-strength army that Lockheed now uses to devise new products and processes to keep ahead of competitors-but the number runs to 13.000 or 14.000 scientists and engineers. Says Gross: "I suspect there's more science and engineering in a button today than there was 20 years ago." In, steel, Europe...
...Harvard history instructor and a Cambridge contractor have developed a new plan for urban rehabilitation which could become the basis for resumption of an urban renewal program for the City...