Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most revolutions are masterminded by a strong man or a junta or a committee of the elite, but in Panama last week the people themselves pulled the revolutionary strings. Panama's official President-maker, Colonel José ("Chichi") Remón, bided his time and eventually supplied the firepower...
...bawled out the truck driver was Roy A. (for August) Fruehauf, 42, president of the Fruehauf Trailer Co. As head of the company which puts more trailers (i.e., freight vans pulled behind trucks or "truck-tractors") on the road than any other trailer-maker, he has a public-relations job to perform. The trailers' size (biggest is 32 ft. 3⅜ in. long, carries 25,000 Ibs.) plus the bad road manners of many of their drivers have helped stir up anti-trucking sentiment around the U.S., and given Fruehauf one of its biggest headaches. But though motorists fume...
Thanks to such gadgets, the gross of the materials-handling equipment industry has grown from $250 million in 1948 to $1 billion in 1950. Sales are expected to exceed $2.5 billion this year. The biggest equipment-maker, Michigan's Clark Equipment Co., shot from $18 million sales in 1940 to $68 million last year, expects to beat $100 million in 1951. The runner-up, Yale & Towne (1950 sales: $65 million),has doubled production of materials-handling trucks since last June, expects to double it again within a year. Said Yale & Towne's Vice President Elmer F. Twyman...
...final objective--the search for success--is the same. A man wants a successful career; for a woman, success is something far more difficult than making money. The woman is, after all, the maker of the family...
...importer), went to work instead of to college. He started with American Can's New York factory as a 17?-an-hour timekeeper in 1916, went into the Army, and after World War I toured South America as a cotton-goods salesman. He rejoined the biggest U.S. can maker in 1921 as a solder-clerk, then went into selling. He rose to sales boss in Philadelphia (where he sold the world's first pressurized tennis ball cans to the Pennsylvania Rubber Co.). He became executive vice president in 1949, lately has set American Can's researchers...