Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COUPLING yesterday's sense of thrift with today's management-by-computer techniques, John Eldred Swearingen, 45, has sharply raised earnings in the five years that he has been president of Standard Oil (Indiana). Last week he took pride in a 35% earnings jump to $140 million for the first nine months of 1963, and in winning a big oil concession in Egypt. One of the youngest men ever to head a major U.S. oil company, South Carolina-born Swearingen joined Standard as a chemical engineer at 20, rose through research and production to become president...
Fidel Fell. When Mme. Nhu arrived in the U.S., ABC was first with a TV interview with her-because Lisa Howard had leaped on a plane and flown to Paris to talk to her there, getting the jump on reporters back home. She has a longstanding relationship with Nikita Khrushchev. It began when Khrushchev first came to the U.N. in 1960. Lisa, then working for the Mutual Broadcasting System, hung around the Russian embassy until Khrushchev emerged, batted her eyes at him, and charmed him into agreeing to an interview. Later at the U.N., while Khrush was fixing that loose...
...keeps his own horses, and rides to the hounds when he has time, but Donald P. Kircher, 48, president of Singer Co., has recently been fully occupied guiding his company over the hurdles of diversification and expansion. Last week he took Singer a big jump closer to the billion-dollar club with the acquisition of Friden, Inc., a maker of office automation equipment that should fit in nicely with the 112-year-old sewing-machine maker and bring its annual sales to more than $750 million. Kircher has a firm rule that, within the U.S., his acquisitions must...
...Only we still had to jump the fence, and I want to see the day we can all go through the gate...
...Want to jump a fence...