Word: jonsson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Broyhill Furniture's Paul Broyhill, Textron's Joseph Collinson. Add to them presidents (Boeing Commercial Airplane's E.H. Boullioun, Occidental Petroleum's Joseph Baird) and former chief executives (AT&T's John deButts, Marriott's J. Willard Marriott, Texas Instruments' J. Erik Jonsson, General Foods' C.W. Cook, American Airlines' C.R. Smith...
...area into the economic anchor of Middle America. They shrug off charges that extra acreage was bought so they could call their airport the world's biggest and ignore the fact that Montreal is building a bigger one. Theirs is the biggest now. Says former Dallas Mayor Erik Jonsson, who helped bring the two cities together in the first place: "A wholly different world will be opening...
...introduced to Nixon by Connally in a formal reception in the ranch's high-ceilinged living room. The guest list was compiled from the very top of the Texas power pyramid: Dallas Billionaire H. Ross Perot, H.L. Hunt's son Nelson, John Murchison, former Dallas Mayor Erik Jonsson, Houston Millionairess Ima Hogg, construction Magnate George Brown and Fort Worth's Perry Bass, who helped hoist Connally to political power. Publicly, most of the guests were Democrats; in the eccentricities of Texas politics even the most hidebound conservatives pay lip service to traditional ties to the Democratic Party...