Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. George W. Mason, 63, president and board chairman of American Motors (Nash, Hudson): of acute pancreatitis and pneumonia; in Detroit. Tireless Carmaker Mason became president of the Kelvinator Corp. when he was 38, engineered the 1936 merger with Nash and consolidation with Hudson early this year (TIME, Jan. 25). At the time of his death, he was dickering with Studebaker-Packard for another merger that would have resulted in the world's second largest auto firm (behind General Motors...
...drama student at City College of San Francisco, the new Miss America won $5,000 cash, a Nash sedan, a Philco TV set and about $50,000 in endorsement and personal-appearances fees. To show off her less obvious talents during the contest, Lee Ann gave a dramatic reading of a scene from John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea. Next day, Miss America modestly insisted that her figure was really nothing to get excited about. Said she: "I think Dior's flat look came just in time to save...
What trips off a singer's tongue often falls flat on the printed page. Yet time and again the aging (61) pixy of the Waldorf Towers flashes out with a line of verse that might be Ogden Nash at his snippiest or T. S. Eliot at his youngest. In one respect, however, Lardner was clearly right. When Porter tries to be sentimental about love (which is perhaps half the time), his music may be convincing but his words sound as invincibly phony as Porfirio Rubirosa reading Emily Dickinson to a debutante...
Following Studebaker's lead, American Motors (Nash-Hudson) also started tuning up for 1955 last week. With second-quarter losses of $3,800,000. the company asked 3,500 workers at its big Kenosha. Wis. Nash plant to accept a new contract in the hope of cutting costs and increasing productivity. American is not asking its 1 workers to take a pay cut. Instead, it wants to revise such provisions as seniority rights, work standards, grievance procedure and lost-time allowances to bring its contract into line with the rest of the industry. One big point at issue: Nash...
...businessmen, who like nothing more than getting together at trade conventions, recently have been getting together in another way. They have embarked on the greatest merger spree in history. In the past few months, by stock swap or outright purchase, Nash and Hudson became American Motors, Hilton Hotels took over the Statler chain, Mathieson Chemical and Olin Industries combined. Still more big mergers are in the making throughout industry. Packard and Studebaker stockholders vote this week on consolidating. Bethlehem Steel is talking merger with Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Textron is working on a three-way merger with American Woolen...