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But as sales are being made, profits are going down. Says Thomas Langenfeld of Minneapolis' Dayton Hudson chain: "Customers are responding mostly to clear-cut value and reductions. A substantial part of our sales is being achieved by cutting prices. Profits are being squeezed." Almost all the large chains...
Last week at a breakfast in Manhattan, ten members of the Financial Women's Association, a group of successful managers, introduced themselves as qualified candidates for board membership to the heads of 30 major corporations, including General Motors, Pfizer, Kennecott Copper, Uniroyal and Mobil. Said one of the aspirants...
"When, in the 1950s," the letter began, "Robert Hutchins was haled before a congressional committee and asked if it was true that the University of Chicago taught communism, he replied, 'Yes. And in the medical school we teach cancer.'"
Many industry analysts are skeptical that the arrival of one of Ford's better idea men can have much immediate impact. Says Ronald Glantz, a vice president of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "It takes three years under a crash program to design a new car. Whatever happens in '...
Modern general education saw its real start in 1919 when the Columbia College faculty instituted a required course in Contemporary Civilization, sometimes referred to by current students as "philosopher of the week." Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago from 1929 into the '50s, started a more ambitious...