Word: logan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...district's predominantly Jewish chiefs proudly point out that more and more young gentiles are coming in as junior executives. The most significant change, however, is that giants are beginning to appear in an industry where the average firm has 40 employees. Biggest of them all is Jonathan Logan, Inc., whose sales, running 34% ahead of last year's, are expected to reach $80 million...
...Jonathan Logan has brought modern management methods to a colorfully confused industry. In a business where buyers traditionally go to sellers, Jonathan Logan has more than 60 button-down salesmen constantly visiting the trade, testing trends, reporting on sales. At its new distribution center in New Jersey, a Univac computer sorts and digests day-to-day orders according to models, shades and sizes; with it, the company can toss out slow sellers or step up production in a hurry. Jonathan Logan even has its own C46 transport airlifting fabrics and finished goods to and from its 28 plants around...
Everything for Junior. In real life there is no "Jonathan Logan." The name was invented by Founder and President David Schwartz, 60, a grey-haired, broad-browed, restless man with a voice like the horn on a Staten Island ferry. Born in Harlem to Russian immigrants, he broke into the rag business 47 years ago as a messenger, has become one of its wealthiest titans. He roams and roars through Jonathan Logan's head offices, darting into showrooms to glad-hand buyers, dashing into design rooms to tug at fabrics and study new lines. He is kindly but curt...
...Eastern Air Lines Electra crash on Oct. 4, 1960, just after take-off from Boston's Logan International Airport (62 dead, 10 survivors), was probably caused by starlings sucked into three of the aircraft's four Allison turboprop engines. The birds' bodies clogged the turbines so that power was insufficient to keep the Electra airborne. Two Federal Aviation Agency scientists had already raised an eerie possibility. Wrote they after studying sound patterns: "The Electra sound spectrum contains an audible chirp which appears identical in frequency and wave form to the chirp of field crickets. Field observations strongly...
...Marx get into the Talon, as the yearbook is called? " "I don't know anything about Communism. I'm not a student of history," explained Talon's faculty adviser, English Teacher Martha Logan. "Ignorance and oversight," sighed Kingsbury Principal John Crothers. "Ignorance and carelessness," fumed School Board President W. G. Galbreath...