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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native of Houston, Duncan started out as a chemical engineer and roustabout for the Humble Oil and Refining Co. After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he joined a family firm, the Duncan Coffee Co. (later Duncan Foods), and in 1958 became its president. Six years later, when the company was merged into Coca-Cola, Duncan moved to London as head of Coca-Cola's European operations. He became president of the Atlanta-based firm in November 1971, at a time when Jimmy Carter was Governor of Georgia, but quit less than three years later...
...waiters have to wear tuxedoes," protested Jasper Mirable, owner of Jasper's Restaurant in Kansas City. "They're wet by the middle of the evening. It's destroying everything I've worked for." At the St. Louis offices of the Arthur Andersen & Co. accounting firm, a senior officer reported: "We just turned the thermostat down. In a couple days they'll come around and turn it up, but then we'll turn it back down again." Insisted a liquor-store owner in Boston: "When they turn the air conditioning off in the White House...
...time-consuming ritual of rigging the boat. So they retired to Schweitzer's Pacific Palisades garage and built a craft that combined the best and avoided the worst of both. After selling a few models to friends, Schweitzer left his job as vice president of a computer service firm, bought out Drake's interest and founded Windsurfing International Inc. Today the firm employs 80 at its Marina Del Rey factory and will turn out 12,000 boards this year. There are a wider, more stable version for kids and beginners ($595), the standard model ($745) and the "Rocket...
...grain-growing Iowa, Kansas and other farm-belt states, some 1,000 service stations are selling gasohol, made from gasoline with a 10% lacing of grain alcohol, and Carter's program would enable production to jump. Says Robert Chambers of Iowa's A.C.R. Process Corp., an engineering firm for distilleries: "I've been dealing with a lot of people who have not yet given us the go-ahead to order equipment, but the President's program will make a great deal of difference." From California to New England, investment bankers are pulling together various backers...
...plan for a $100 billion Energy Independence Authority, would profit many companies, small and large alike. Any rush to build synfuel plants would bring new orders for makers of steel, drilling-equipment tools and construction machinery. Says Julian Ward, vice president at Houston's Brown & Root construction firm: "Any company with design-engineering and construction capability is going to have a part of this thing-it's so big. The spending would sop up the entire U.S. petrochemical-engineering know-how. No one should be disappointed if only half of the program comes to pass...