Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bossed by Jules W. Lederer, 45, husband of Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers, has opened franchised branches in 50 cities, plans to open 150 more next year. New York's Kinney Corp., which operates parking lots, now also has a fleet of 3,000 rental autos, will expand into Florida this winter. Other discounters are going strong in Los Angeles and Miami...
Bean rules his board of directors-two sons and two grandsons-with a firm hand, and brushes aside suggestions from his heir apparent, Grandson Leon Gorman, 27, that the company "automate" by buying an Addressograph. "Why expand when you're 90 years old?" demands Bean. Besides, "I get three good meals a day, and I can't eat four." Devoted to quality and his customers, Bean has a simple business philosophy...
Hunting for executive talent, state-run companies often raid private industry. When Norway after the war determined to expand an aluminum plant that the German occupiers had built, the government sought the services of slender Aage Owe (pronounced Oh-veh), the chief of a privately owned margarine monopoly. Engineer Owe accepted the presidency of the firm-which became known simply as The Aluminum Co.-only after he won the right to hire his own staff ("I wanted to have the same advantages as my privately owned competitors. I didn't want state bureaucrats...
...recent months, the Russians have lifted their censorship (although they still read all outgoing dispatches and show their displeasure later). They also seemed walling to let a few more correspondents into Moscow's tight little press colony. We saw an opportunity to expand our Moscow bureau and to break in a successor on the spot for Moscow Bureau Chief Ed Stevens, who has covered the grim Moscow story on and off since 1935 and wants reassignment outside Russia...
...press accreditation allowing him to work, but putting him on a month-to-month basis, assuring him that he would ultimately be permanently accredited. Two weeks ago they zigzagged completely. The Soviets said that they had nothing against Connery or his work, but that if TIME was allowed to expand its bureau, they would have to let too many other Western correspondents...