Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casualness about money has ballooned bad-check losses in the U.S. to an estimated $1 billion a year. But bum-check pushers may shortly find their livelihood threatened by automation. In Los Angeles, a pair of science-minded entrepreneurs are using a digital computer to blot out what J. Edgar Hoover calls "fountain-pen bandits...
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...
...West Africa's most distinguished intellectual and one of its most staunchly pro-French leaders. A Sorbonne-educated, internationally noted poet, the 56-year-old Senghor served in the postwar French Assembly, even sat in the Paris Cabinet (as Secretary of State for Scientific Research) under Premier Edgar Faure. He is also a devout African nationalist and prominent exponent of "négritude''-the concept that sees Africa as the wave of the future. Nevertheless, Senghor is convinced that Senegal's best hopes for strength and prosperity lie in continued close association with France. Such...
...this prospect, which the economists have dourly christened "high-level stagnation." U.S. businessmen in 1962 increasingly looked abroad to markets where millions for the first time had money to spend for much beyond the bare necessities. ''When the aluminum market went soft at home." says Kaiser Aluminum's Chairman Edgar Kaiser, "we almost made up for it by the volume of our business in England...
...places (though not in schools and hospitals). "We have 200 million neighbors to the north of us shouting 'Africa for the Africans,' " cried Whitehead to raucous catcalls from white farmers. "We must plan a system that will last 25, 50 or 100 years." Stumping energetically for Sir Edgar, Welensky argued that the surest way to preserve white rule was to toss some concessions to the 2,900,000 blacks in the self-governing British colony...