Word: donners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Katz therefore took his earnings from Rite-Kit, set up Paper-craft. He was willing to innovate; among other things, he helped pioneer the change from flat-folded Christmas wrappings to those sold by the roll. His stock in trade is the traditional design -Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, Donner, Blitzen, etc. This has helped him to become the main supplier of Christmas wrapping paper to tradition-minded giants like Sears, Roebuck...
Ordinarily, General Motors Chairman Fred Donner keeps his wit to himself. Last week, after Donner and G.M. President James M. Roche delivered their annual state-of-the-company report to stockholders, the chairman was needled by critics about the size of his salary and bonus (a total $790,000 last year...
...Donner coolly noted that the bonus fluctuates with his company's fortunes but that the salary, alas, hasn't changed from its $200,000 annually in almost nine years. "So I have the distinction of being the only employee without a pay raise since 1958." While the stockholders laughed, Donner added: "But I'm not complaining...
...economy, it is a tough time for anybody to be president of G.M. In grooming a chief executive, G.M. prides itself on picking the one man with the right combination of talents for the challenges ahead. Charlie Wilson was an engineering whiz, Harlow Curtice was a supersalesman, Fred Donner is a savvy financial man. Roche, more broadly trained than any of them, has scored a series of successes while working in marketing, public relations and international sales-precisely those areas in which G.M. senses its greatest potential for improvement and expansion...
...Cadillac, but he often test-drives a different car home from the production lines. He wears his responsibility as comfortably as an old shoe. When he got word last June of his promotion to a job that paid him $557,083 in 1965, he celebrated with Fred Donner and ex-President John Gordon by going to the New York World's Fair and taking the Pepsi-Cola ride...