Word: findlay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bean mail-order company waited as long as nine days for their merchandise to arrive. This Christmas season, though, Bean will guarantee shipment of its maple syrup, Chamois Cloth shirts and other items in just four days via Federal Express for an extra $7.50. Says John Findlay, Bean's senior vice president: "There's too much at stake at this time of year to make our customers wait...
There is Pope Joan (Selina Cadell), who is said to have ascended the throne of St. Peter around A.D. 855 and who was later stoned to death. Also joining the party are Isabella Bird (Deborah Findlay), an intrepid 19th century Scottish traveler; Lady Nijo (Lindsay Duncan), a 13th century Japanese courtesan who became a Buddhist nun; Dull Gret (Carole Hayman), who led an avenging legion of women into the precincts of hell in Brueghel's painting Dulle Griet; and finally, Patient Griselda (Lesley Manville), made famous in Boccaccio and Chaucer as the model of a loyal, submissive wife...
...rest of the play, in which the women of history double in contemporary roles, shows us the price Marlene has paid for her rise. Fleeing her home and family at 17, she left her illegitimate child Angie (Hayman) with her sister Joyce (Findlay) to be raised as Joyce's own. Angie is a touching clod of a girl, dimwitted, lazy and fearful...
Both Ford and General Motors are experimenting with just-in-time production. At GM's truck assembly plant in West Carrollton, Ohio, Findlay Industries Inc., a local manufacturer of truck seats, makes daily deliveries of seats that are bolted into truck cabs within four hours of their arrival at the plant. The seats used to sit around in a plant warehouse for as long as two weeks waiting to be drawn from inventory and used. At GM's Linden, N.J., and Tarrytown, N.Y., assembly plants, similarly tight inventory management procedures are expected to save the company upwards...
Under the terms of the deal, Marathon's management would be retained, and the company's headquarters would remain in Findlay (pop. 36,000), where they have been almost since Marathon was founded in 1887 by 14 local oilmen. Hoopman got a hero's welcome when his Lockheed JetStar touched down last week after the deal was concluded. Findlayites swarmed around him on the tarmac, shouting, "Hoop, Hoop, hurrah!" Said one Wall Street analyst: "People did not want big oil in their town...