Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Camp President Gilbert Van Camp Jr., 41, the happiest result of his company's decision to go global has been its effect on the U.S. tuna fishing industry. To meet the competition of Van Camp's foreign fleets, West Coast tuna fishermen began to abandon their time-wasting practice of "horsing in" tuna with poles, re-equipped their boats with nylon seines that cut costs and increased the catch. They also held down wage demands. As a result, despite its burgeoning foreign operations. Van Camp now buys more West Coast fish than before...
Fishy Existence. The Van Camp family got into canning in Indianapolis in 1861, when Gilbert Jr.'s great-grandfather began packing tomatoes; subsequently his offspring began putting up pork and beans. In 1914 the Van Camps sold off the Indianapolis business-which ultimately fell into the hands of the Stokely family-and headed for California and tuna. Though the Stokelys retain the Van Camp name on their pork-and-beans can, the Van Camps no longer have any interest in pork and beans. But they own 60% of Van Camp Sea Food...
Since tuna consumption in the U.S. has been increasing at a steady 7% each year without any increase in prices (tuna is one of the few foods that cost the consumer less today than a decade ago), stocky Gilbert Van Camp foresees an ever brighter future for his company. His life is wrapped up in fish. His special pride is an 85-ft. power boat, the Vantuna, on which he likes to cruise with his wife and four daughters, aged 10 to 18. What do they do on their cruises? They fish. Boasts Van Camp: "We horsed in 30 tons...
...record leaves folk songs largely behind and roams the boundaries of the public domain. Since Gilbert and Sullivan are there now, Sherman has a go at When I Was a Lad from H.M.S. Pinafore: "So I thank old Yale and I thank the Lord And I also thank my father who is chairman of the board." Aura Lee emerges this way: "Every time you take vaccine, take it orally . . ." But the best of all is a number in which Queen Victoria sings the Bill Bailey melody, sniffling, "Disraeli, won't you please come home...
...corporations investing in new equipment. Then, in the most important economic legislation of the year, Congress passed the Trade Expansion Act, giving the President wide powers to bargain down tariffs. In vivid testimony to their rejection of economic isolationism, U.S. businessmen generally applauded the Trade Act. Said Chairman Carl Gilbert of Gillette: "The Trade Expansion Act has done much to heal the break between the President and business...