Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herbert Lester Barnet, 46, onetime New York lawyer, was named president of Pepsi-Cola, replacing Alfred Nu Steele, who moved up to the board chairmanship and remains chief executive officer. Barnet developed a nodding acquaintance with Pepsi-Cola as a member of a New York law firm which handled Pepsi's business, did so well that in 1949 he went over full time. Put in charge of all concessions, Barnet hit the spot, and within a year was twice promoted to veep in charge of national sales, then to vice president in charge of domestic operations...
...LESTER C. GUILBERT Buffalo
Social Security. In Artesia, N.Mex., insisting that the Government had no right to seize his $83 bank account for alleged back taxes, Insurance Adjuster Lester Plummer sued Internal Revenue Agent C. Buck Caviness and "other unknown persons" for $4.5 billion, explained: "I might as well get up into figures the Government can understand...
...Chrysler Corp. President Lester Colbert: automobiles on superhighways may be driven by electronic "automatic pilots," with human guidance required only at exits and entrances...
Herman D. Ruhm Jr., 53, resigned after ten years as president of Bates Manufacturing Co., of Lewiston, Me., to become president of Burlington Industries Inc. Ruhm, who was on the losing side in the recent proxy fight for control of Bates that was won by Consolidated Textiles' Lester Martin, graduated from Yale ('23), got his first job in a Nevada mine, leaving after a year to work for Standard Oil (N.J.). He entered textiles in 1928 with Associated Dry Goods, moved to Bates in 1937, will serve as deputy to Burlington's board chairman, Spencer Love...