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...Edward Dunbar seemed to have achieved the American dream. In the mid-1970s, the Castro Valley, Calif., resident started Dunbar Oil with a single discount gas station. When the oil crisis hit, business boomed, and Dunbar Oil grew into a chain of 34 stations strung around San Francisco Bay. By 1981 the company was earning more than $33 million a year...
Portland native Dunbar N. Carpenter ’08 said he was optimistic about the possible research opportunities the eruption would open for geologists...
...1950s. Just as twinsets and pencil skirts ruled the recent fall runways, the mid-century look is finding its way into every room of the house, from the campy opulence of '60s interior designer David Hicks to the high design of newly re-issued Dunbar furniture. Marshall Field's has introduced interior-design guru Thomas O'Brien's updated take on Fiestaware for the table. For the kitchen, there are bubble-gum pink stand mixers from KitchenAid and chubby refrigerators from Elmira Stove Works. In the driveway, there's even a reissued Mini Cooper in a retro-perfect shade...
...former team members met and figured out how they could make do with one less body. They would have to work harder without more pay, but they wanted to do what was best for the enterprise. "That doesn't happen at other companies," says human-resources associate Sonia Dunbar, 43. "It's the beauty of Gore...
...that included some living poets was an anthology called The Black Poets, edited by a man named Dudley Randall. I read that book cover to cover and dog-eared it. I let it take root inside me and grow, as George Steiner would say. Those poets, from Paul Lawrence Dunbar up through Ntozake Shange, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker and Margaret Danner, they were my first influence, even before I was writing. It took me a long time to learn how to read white people’s poetry...