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...increase in sales, G.M.-with many of the same problems that steel complains of, and with workers earning wages about $20 a week more than steel-proved the inestimable value of good management. It has one of the best executive teams in the U.S., headed by Chairman Frederic Donner, 60, and President John Gordon, 62, two sharp-eyed, tough-minded men who seem to have been made to work together...
Among industrialists, such company chairmen as Frederic Donner (General Motors), Roger Blough (U.S. Steel), Joseph Block (Inland Steel), Carter Burgess (American Machine & Foundry), Charles Percy (Bell & Howell), such presidents as Edgar Kaiser (Kaiser Industries), J. Paul Austin (Coca-Cola), Thomas Jones (Northrop...
...milk, cream, venison, wild peas, tea and coffee all included in a single typical dinner. Toward the other end, they ate rancid bacon, mountain sheep, red fox, and sometimes boiled hides. When they were dying of thirst, they drank mule urine. While 47 of the 87 members of the Donner Party were dying of hunger in 1846, there was some cannibalism. "What do you think I cooked this morning?" said Aunt Betsy Donner one day. "Shoemaker...
General Motors Chairman Frederic G. Donner reckons that a major factor in the surge is a long-term increase in replacement auto sales. Today, says Donner, cars are being scrapped in the U.S. at a rate of more than 4,000,000 a year, v. 3,200,000 in the early '50s. And this rate should continue to rise because every year there are more cars on the road to wear...
...Volkswagen headquarters in New Jersey, noted that nary a Volkswagen was to be seen around Cobo Hall. "Well," said he genially, "this is a 'national' auto show, isn't it?" To a luncheon audience that included Henry Ford II, G.M. Chairman Frederic Donner and Chrysler's President Lynn Townsend, he urged U.S. and foreign automakers to make common cause in ending all trade barriers in the free world. "I look with the same great concern as you do on the protectionist thinking of certain high-tariff groups within the Common Market countries," said Nordhoff. "The Common...