Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit's history. Corporation giants were falling all over themselves in making plans for capital investment in 1965. "I've never seen people so optimistic," said Robert H. Stewart III, president of Dallas' First National Bank. Declared John Brooks, board chairman of Santa Monica's Lear Siegler, Inc., manufacturers of aerospace products, air conditioners and TV equipment: "There is little doubt that our present economy is strong. Tax reductions did stimulate industry and help business last year. We will continue to be aided this year by a further tax reduction." Mused Los Angeles Sportswear Manufacturer Richard...
...living flesh on a deadpan, reach down the throat of a corpse and come up with a ghastly guffaw. His language is bare, strong, lucid, manly: perhaps the most intensely concentrated prose ever written in English. In energy he is the last Elizabethan; not even Shakespeare's Lear surpasses the vigor of Swift's invective or the reach of his rage. In conscience he is the first Victorian; not until Dickens did Britain produce a major writer who so fiercely cried out against man's inhumanity...
With jets, bosses move about more because they can fly out and back fast enough to prevent piled-up paperwork. "We now have a tendency to make a trip for a two-day meeting that we would have put off before," says Lear Siegler Vice President John J. Burke. At Bell & Howell, six ranking officers will use the ordinarily dead week after Christmas for a jet swing to pep meetings in Cleveland, New York and Los Angeles, returning to Chicago in time for New Year's with their families. Many travelers never glimpse the city in which they have...
...Easy as Washington. It is also causing significant changes in corporate procedure. Lear Siegler now supervises eleven divisions with four corporate officers, who spend half their time traveling. International Harvester has disposed of five company planes, since commercial jets can do the job just as well. Company travel budgets have risen sharply: the Garrett Corp. of Los Angeles spends $1,500,000 a year v. $500,000 ten years...
...wonder if Macmillan was aware of the striking similarity between his words about Churchill [Aug. 7] and Edgar's words about King Lear. After the death of Lear, Edgar remarks with a kind...