Word: hoovers
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Former President Dwig D. Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover both issued statements of sorrow in New York City. Former President Harry S. Truman said he was "shocked beyond words." Richard Cardinal Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston and a lifelong friend of the Kennedy family, said "This terrible tragedy has deprived our country of one of its greatest Presidents...
...clubs. Bizarre idiocy is also prevalent. L.S.U. coeds recently launched a "drawers raid" on a men's dormitory, and two Cornell fraternity teams played a 30-hour touch football game (score: 664-538). Columbia students staged an 'all-cause" protest rally with marchers Brandishing such signs as HOOVER IN 64 and WE SHALL OVERRUN. The University of Chicago's pitiful attempt to revive football was protested by purists saving ban-the-ball signs in Greek...
...Hoover Co. was founded by H. W. Hoover's strong-minded grandfather, who ran a saddle and harness factory in North Canton, Ohio. Despite his comfortable position in saddlery, the elder Hoover foresaw the obsolescence of the horse collar, began experimenting first with horseless-carriage accessories, then with "electric suction sweepers." Vacuum cleaners were by no means new; the first U.S. suction cleaner had been patented in 1869, and seven other models were on the market when the Hoover family began. But the Hoover Co. added an agitation bar to beat the dust out of rugs, leading...
...hundred nations, the name Hoover suggests not J. Edgar or Herbert but a vacuum cleaner, and some people use it as a verb as well as a noun. Ohio's 55-year-old Hoover Co., the world's oldest and biggest vacuum-cleaner maker, nowadays is concerned with more than merely cleaning carpets. While vacuums will bring half of this year's expected worldwide sales of $200 million (up 21% from last year), Hoover plants from Australia to Wales have also begun to turn out electric can openers, hair dryers, heaters, washing machines, floor polishers. Driving this...
Down with Committees. One of the last remaining U.S. businessmen to head a huge company that carries his family name, "H. W." Hoover is unique and outspoken in many ways. He abhors management by committee; on his desk is a picture of a camel and the familiar gag caption that it is a horse designed by a committee. He insists that his executives stay out of the stock market (says Hoover: "If they're absorbed in gaining wealth, they're not giving their best thinking to the company"). He forbids corporate borrowing ("You get captured by financial obligations...