Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Field can afford to grow. The money-losing paper that he took over in 1950 is now solidly in the black. Unlike his father, who seldom counted the financial cost in backing a project, young Marshall Field Jr. takes after his cost-conscious, merchant-prince grandfather. Though daily circulation slipped (now 556,885), he boosted ads and cut costs by putting every department on a dollar-watching financial footing. Field himself works hard, and he expects every other Sun-Timesman to follow suit. Says one of his top executives: "He's a tough little guy to work...
...production "appears to be accompanied by keen competition." In a changing and uncertain world, "the only safe thing to do i to study consumer tastes and trends, to f ish research, and to strive vigorously to grew." Mere size alone is no indication of how rapidly a company will grow. Between 1935 and 1953, for example, the giant U.S. Steel Corp. increased sales 397%, but smaller Bethlehem Steel grew 980%, and Jones & Laughlin 880%. In rubber, General Tire grew 1,225%, Firestone 750%, while the two biggest companies, Goodrich and U.S. Rubber, increased far less. "Certainly," said Slichter, "the changes...
...what this particular kind of U.S. education can do. Begun in 1928 under the Federal Board for Vocational Education, the national F.F.A. program is an attempt to combine academic work in agriculture with practical after-school experience. The boys who join can buy livestock from their chapter and grow crops on ground leased through it. These they can sell for a profit, while the chapter uses whatever is left over to make a profit of its own. Under P.D. (for Paul Duane) Spilsbury, this learning-by-earning process has paid off handsomely in Wasco. When he took over...
...into Elliot Lake this year, and began building bachelor dormitories for its construction workers, can convert them later into apartments for families. "If uranium proves to be a long-range proposition," said one of Elliot Lake's planners, "we see no reason why this town shouldn't grow to 20,000." For Pronto's executive and professional staff Hirshhorn put up a community of ultramodern ranch houses along the shore of Lake Lauzon...
...They suffer all these, and yet they grow! Only a small number are overwhelmed...