Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both individual and group conferences, the subjects discuss the factors behind delinquency and other topics that lead them toward a clearer understanding of themselves. Boys get into trouble, one subject stated, "because they have no money and no one will give them any money so they go out and steal and so it ends up into trouble and they get put in jail." Another subject noted, "In my short period attending here so far, I have never since I can remember, felt greater mentally...
...problem most uncommon in Detroit: it had grown too conservative. Chugging along on what was basically a 1937 engine, the division was losing out to competition. Sales had slipped from 1,517,609 cars in 1950 to 871,503 in 1952. G.M. President Charlie Wilson grew worried, offered to give Chevy Boss Thomas Keating anything or anyone to pep up Chevy. Said Tom Keating: "I want Ed Cole." Red Curtice, then G.M.'s executive vice president, sent a hurry call to Cole, told him of his promotion to chief engineer of Chevy. Startled, Cole asked: "How soon...
...complaints-poor assembly-line workmanship. He likes to inspect the Chevies in showrooms and on the lots, peers under hoods, checks the chrome, looks hard for water leaks. On occasion, he has flown in a team of engineers from Detroit to replace all faulty parts. Time and again, dealers give him their highest possible accolade; they bubble that "when Ed Cole talks to you, he makes you feel like you're talking to another dealer." Such loyalty will not hurt Ed Cole in the coming battle of the compacts and the swift changes ahead for the entire auto market...
BUTTER SURPLUS, once so mountainous (467 million Ibs. in 1954) that it seemed permanent, has been eliminated. Agriculture Department allocated last 20 million Ibs. to school lunch program. Government will still buy butter, give it away to schools and welfare groups as production increases next spring, but grand-scale surpluses of past years are unlikely to recur. Reason: overall milk production has failed to increase in proportion to consumer demand...
...torn United Fruit Co., succeeding Kenneth H. Redmond, 64, retiring after 42 years with the company. Sunderland, who admits he "knows nothing about bananas," is an expert in the antitrust problems that plague United Fruit; under a 1958 antitrust decree, United Fruit must sell off some of its properties, give up 35% of its import business. A Michigan-born lawyer, Sunderland saw World War II service in the Army Air Forces, became a Standard director and vice president in 1949. At United Fruit, he hopes to revive wilting profits ($1.15 per share in the first six months...