Word: founder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...piston plane in 1960, has attracted passengers with imaginative fare plans. Last year passenger totals rose 26.8%, to 848,000, and the company earned $530,000 on revenues of $18 million. Much credit goes to Henry who, before going to Pacific last July, had been second-in-command to Founder-Presdent Edmund Converse, 60. Converse will be vice chairman of the merged airline, and Henry its president...
...shirts, 50% in France and the remainder in the crocodile-alligator world beyond. This month, as Lacoste's factories reopen after a vacation layoff, the order backlog has reached 200,000, and Chemise Lacoste has also gotten an unexpected bonus. Catherine Lacoste, 22-year-old daughter of Founder Rene Lacoste, last month outplayed the pros and, as an amateur, won the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in Hot Springs, Va. "I don't know if it's because my daughter won or not," says Rene Lacoste with a smile, "but everybody seems to want...
...John Nuveen & Co., one of the nation's largest municipal bond houses, was negotiating for the purchase of Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., a New York Stock Exchange member firm whose founder, now 70, went into the business in 1938 after a colorful career as an author on merchandising (one of his books: Merchandising Bargain Basements). For Chicago-based Nuveen, acquiring Wiesenberger would be in line with the recent trend among municipal bond houses, which have diversified into other securities operations because of increasingly vigorous competition from commercial banks...
Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, when he sailed his new, 102-ft. pilot schooner America to England in 1851 to do battle with the Royal Yacht Squadron in a race around the Isle of Wight. The original price of the America was to be $30,000, but her builder had to knock her down to $20,000 because she did not prove the fastest boat in the U.S.* Against...
Died. Vittorio Valletta, 84, managing director from 1928 to 1966 of Italy's Fiat, world's fourth-ranking automaker and the country's second biggest private industry, a tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) onetime math professor who signed on in 1921 to help Founder Giovanni Agnelli consolidate World War I growth, deftly steered the company through depression, dictatorship and World War II, then, with organizational genius and Marshall Plan cash, embarked on a vast expansion and diversification program that resulted in $1.66 billion in sales last year at his retirement; of a stroke; in Marina di Pietrasanta...