Word: generale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Will the general succeed in this nefarious scheme? Will Evil Eye Fleagle (Al Nesor) perpetrate a Triple Whammy on po' Li'l Abner? Will Appassionata von Climax (Stella Stevens) catch him in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day Race? Will Li'l Abner ackchelly have to (sob!) marry up wif "a female of THUH OPPOSITE SEX," thereby yielding her a half interest in Yokumberry Tonic? And if he does, what will happen to po' Daisy Mae (Leslie Parrish...
...retired from the labor force. ¶Automakers scheduled production at 90% of the output at the same time last year. All told, the industry should produce 142,000 new cars this week v. 86,000 last week. For the first time in nearly four weeks, new cars rolled off General Motors' assembly line...
CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT, hard hit by defense cutbacks, will become a major maker of mobile housing units. It bought two house-trailer manufacturers, General Coach Works, ABC Coach Co., and will add a third, Mid-States Corp. Three firms' combined 1959 sales: $60 million...
professional soldiers who have won star-studded reputations in the postwar business world, the out standing example is General Lucius DuBignon Clay, the compact (5 ft. 9 in., 170 tbs.), hard-driving chairman and chief executive of Continental Can Co. West Pointer ('18) Clay, 62, carried out one of the biggest logistical jobs in history as director of materiel in the Army Service Forces in World War II. After war's end, as commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment...
...Clay has a photographic memory that enables him to keep track of minute details, often confounds others with his knowledge. He is a relentlessly driving executive who needs little sleep, maintains iron discipline, is never wholly satisfied with the performance of his subordinates (all of whom address him as "general"). Says an old friend: "He is still the same old impossible so-and-so that he was in the Army - and he still produces results." Clay got most of his results by applying military-organization methods to the vast complexities of Continental Can. He decentralized Continental's muscle-bound...