Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chrysler rolled up near-record earnings of $4.90 a share in this year's second quarter, hiked half-year earnings to $6.65 a share on a sales gain of 42% over last year. The news seemed so good to President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert that he hastened to warn stockholders against expecting too much in the second half because of lower production schedules and the cost of building and introducing 1960 models...
...general sessions to be held at the Business School, other phases of high school administrative and educational problems will be discussed by such speakers as Lester W. Nelson, treasurer of The Fund for the Advancement of Education, Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions at Harvard College, and Matthew P. Gaffney, Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education...
...this line of reasoning, it must be admitted that Berghof has succeeded in doing almost everything he set out to do. His production makes use of the fine two-story basic stage that Robert O'Hearn designed for the Cambridge Drama Festival's shows in Sanders Theatre. High up, Lester Polakov (whose costumes add much to the general lightness and brightness) has affixed a number of white, stylized orange-tree tops. And by having spikes driven into the poles, Berghof has enabled people to scamper up to a third level. In the garden scene where Malvolio discovers the faked letter...
Ever since plans for the new compact cars got around Detroit, competitors of General Motors Corp. have been kicking at the rear engine G.M. will use in its Corvair. Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert announced that Chrysler's small-car offering, the Valiant, would have its engine "up front, where it belongs." Ford Motor Co., whose small Falcon will also have a front engine, launched TV commercials demonstrating that an arrow weighted at the back end will fly erratically and miss the target, but that a "properly weighted" (i.e., heavy at the front) arrow will go straight...
...London Conference in 1949 the assembled Prime Ministers issued a communique that began with a reference to "the British Commonwealth" and ended with a declaration of unity by the "free and equal members of the Commonwealth." It was no accident that the adjective "British" vanished in transit. Lester ("Mike") Pearson, then Canada's External Affairs chief, recalls: "It was the British genius for evasion or compromise or common sense, whatever you wish to call it. Neither name satisfied everyone there, so both were used. It is now officially and in daily talk-at least in Canada-just...