Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other California savings-and-loan executives testified that they had heeded Baker's formula for political activism. Stuart Davis, chairman of the board of Los Angeles' Great Western Financial Corp., related that in October 1962 he had toted $50,100 in cash in two envelopes to Washington-only to sit around his hotel room for three days waiting for Baker to return his call. Finally, said Davis, "I received a telephone call, saying he'd like to come down to my hotel and see me." Davis said that he got the two envelopes out of the hotel...
...future returns to the gravity of earth, will his heart still be up to the job of pumping blood through his body? After weeks, months or years in the resistanceless atmosphere of space, might it be out of training? To head off such a deconditioning, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.-under contract to the Air Force -last week announced development of the inelegantly titled Lower Body Negative Pressure device...
Fourth Largest. The new firm, to be run by McDonnell and to be called the McDonnell Douglas Corp., will be the fourth largest U.S. aircraft maker-after Boeing, North American Aviation and Lockheed. The merger will produce benefits for both partners. McDonnell, which has always built military aircraft, will be able to spread its product line, increase its earnings with such well-regarded commercial airplanes as the Douglas DC-8 and DC-9. And Douglas, with McDonnell's backing, should now be able to get loans of about $400 million that bankers were loath to make because of Douglas...
...ailing American Motors Corp., Model Year 1967 was bound to be a year of change-if not in the company's sad sales record, then in its Detroit executive suite. Having spent $60 million on restyling, beleaguered President Roy Abernethy, 60, all but abandoned the head office for the hustings to drum up dealer interest in the new models. In Detroit, A.M.C. Chairman and No. 1 Stockholder Robert B. Evans, 60, settled back to watch the progress on his own pledge to "turn this company around...
...Fletcher, 78, "Mother of the Year" in 1965, who believed that "Youngsters expect a little discipline," neither spared the rod nor spoiled the brood of five boys and a girl, saw her sons become president of the University of Utah, vice president of Western Electric, vice president of Sandia Corp., professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University, and a top researcher for NASA; of liver disease; in Salt Lake City...