Word: goodrich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the shower of good first-quarter earnings reports (see below), other companies voiced their confidence in the increasing appetite of the growing U.S. population. B. F. Goodrich Chairman John L. Collyer announced a $200 million plant expansion in the next five years, nearly $60 million more than in the last five. Youngstown Sheet & Tube, already committed to a $40 million outlay in two years, is pressing so hard to keep up with rising steel demand that it is considering tacking another $20 million onto the total...
...Alec Goodrich is a tawny-eyed, well-heeled, philandering novelist. He lives in a wild part of Wales surrounded by "strange, Wagnerian scenery" and with the loud Atlantic roaring on his doorstep. He defies the Inspector (and shocks Harold) by traveling first-class with a third-class ticket and investing his money, his sacred money, in absurd companies...
Roger Klein, in the lead, manages to portray the understanding of the returned prodigal gently and sympathetically. Pierre Leval and Alan Goodrich, as the father and the elder brother, also succeed in creating strong characters of brief parts. Tom Harrington burned youthfully as the younger brother, and only Olga de Leuchtenberg faltered in her role as the mother...
...same level the same salary, put them on a merit basis, boosted salaries 65%. Though Trinity's professors were cool to his businesslike, public-relations approach, those outside the college were not. Within four years, Funston joined the boards of directors of seven companies: General Foods, B. F. Goodrich, Connecticut General Life Insurance, Owen-Corning Fiberglas, Hartford Steam Boiler, Aetna Insurance, First National Bank. On each, Funston, as Weinberg says, "was a good director-independent and willing to do the homework...
...Diary of Anne Frank (dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett) does well with a difficult assignment, achieves through quiet sensibility what could be wrecked by staginess. From young Anne Frank's real-life chronicle of herself and seven other Jews hiding out during the Nazi occupation in an Amsterdam garret (TIME, June 16, 1952) have come vivid stage pictures of their huddled, muffled, weirdly commingled existence. It was an existence fated to end in Nazi concentration camps and death, but for the two years it lasted, it proved a fascinating mixture of the brightly ordinary and the hideously...