Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hourly wage cut for the older man. One thing is certain: higher pensions, like higher wages, will have to be paid for by industry-either by higher prices or higher productivity. And higher prices are not the answer. Said Eastman Kodak Co.'s Treasurer Marion B. Folsom, long an expert on pensions: "If we are to give more goods and services to those who no longer work, those who are working must produce more. Otherwise, everybody's standard of living will fall." That is no new problem. The U.S. economy has met it before, notably in shortening...
...socially-conscious businessman, Georgia-born Marion Bayard Folsom, 56, has spent almost as much time in Washington, B.C. during the past 15 years as he has at his treasurer's desk in the $380 million Eastman Kodak Co. This week Folsom takes on another civic chore: the chairmanship of the businessman's Committee for Economic Development, succeeding West Coast Banker W. Walter Williams, 56, who wants to run for U.S. Senator from Washington...
...Alabama, eleven candidates had declared for Big Jim Folsom's job (Alabama governors may not succeed themselves). Most conspicuous were Judge Elbert Boozer, who moves about with a $20,000 trailer built as a replica of the state capitol, complete with desks, radio telephones and a copper dome raised and lowered pneumatically; Eugene ("Bull") Connor, Birmingham's police commissioner, whose political views are enshrined in his remark: "I ain't going to let no darkies and white folks segregate together in this town"; and Gordon Persons, Public Service Commission chairman, who will campaign by helicopter...
Johnson had talked his ideas over with such men as the Rev. John F. Cronin, assistant director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, A.F.L. Economist Boris Shishkin, C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey, Libbey-Owens-Ford's President John D. Biggers, RCA's President Frank Folsom, Macy's President Jack I. Straus, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Herman Steinkraus. Their final report called for nothing less than revolution in the basic approach to labor-management relations...
...first sign of peace came three weeks ago when RCA Victor announced that its new 1950 radio-phonograph console models would include an attachment for the 33⅓-r.p.m. long-playing records developed by Columbia. This week, in full-page ads, RCA President Frank M. Folsom announced that Victor would start making "a new and improved" LP record...