Word: jonsson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Block Partnership program, which unites the residents of a black ghetto block with a white civic-action group. These two sides discuss and tackle all kinds of problems, ranging from jobs to plumbing. In three months, Bourgeois' program has proved so effective that he was invited by Mayor Jonsson of Dallas to help set up the same operation there. The key, says Bourgeois, is involvement. "You establish the feeling that 'We can do it ourselves, we can chart a course...
...Texas Instruments Inc., which grew big by making little nothings (transistors and integrated circuits), owes much of its $580 million-a-year success to John Erik Jonsson, 65, who assembled the corporate team that converted the old Geophysical Service Inc. to electronics after World War II. Last week, having reached retirement age, Brooklyn-born Jonsson stepped down as board chairman. His successor: Patrick Eugene Haggerty, 52, who as vice president and then president during the firm's remarkable growth matched Jonsson's financial know-how with his own expertise in electrical engineering. Haggerty will stay on as chief...
...huge mirrors above his bed or covering an entire wall. Yet Dallas also has a good symphony orchestra that is pressing Houston's, its art museum is expanding, some residents have top-flight private collections. "It's a good place to be an American," says J. Erik Jonsson, Chairman of the Board of Texas Instruments...
...longer just a cornucopia shaped like an oil well. Among the Dallas millionaires, Trammell Crow made his fortune by building and operating warehouses in a dozen states, and Carr P. Collins and his sons got their multimillion-dollar stake in the insurance business. Texas Instruments Chairman Erik Jonsson was busy piling up what eventually became $100 million in electronics, and Leo Corrigan was rapidly multiplying his wealth by building a hotel combine that now stretches from the Bahamas to Hong Kong...
...John Erik Jonsson, 58, chairman of Texas Instruments Inc., was not worth very much money only seven years ago-and neither was his company, specializing in geophysical work for oil companies. The stock sold for $5.13 a share. Then he began to pick up companies, entered the military electronics field with transistors and other electronic devices. Last week the company's stock sold at 214.75. Jonsson now owns stock worth $82 million. His associates have done nearly as well: Texins' executive committee chairman, Eugene McDermott, owns shares worth $65 million and President Patrick E. Haggerty shares worth...