Word: newark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned the Rock of Gibraltar, the company's famed trademark, into something resembling a volcano. By dint of his ideas and exertions, Shanks has not only become one of the most respected spokesmen for U.S. life insurance, but has also made the Pru, whose head offices are in Newark, N.J., the fastest-growing company in a rapidly expanding industry. In the last 30 years the U.S. life insurance industry has more than doubled its policyholders, quadrupled its insurance in force, and nearly quadrupled its assets...
...Mann Act case in a Manhattan courtroom, three call girls testified that at least three times last year one or another of them had given her all for G.E. products. Lewis E. Rinker and John A. Murray, both officials of G.E.'s supply company in Newark, N.J., admitted they paid the girls to entertain important customers, .all in the interests of good business. Said Rinker, at the time one of the supply company's Newark promotion men: "This is public relations. It certainly creates good will...
During a three-day convention of G.E. dealers in Newark last July, said Rinker, he telephoned red-haired Nella Bogart, 32, who is on trial as the madam of a Manhattan vice ring. "I was requested by the sales manager," testified Rinker, "to ask Miss Bogart if she would come and bring a young lady with her for purposes of prostitution.'' When Nella and another girl, Pat D'Amico, 19, arrived, they registered at the hotel as mother and daughter, and got right to work. G.E.-Man Rinker picked up the tab for their suite-the customers...
...March 5 he arranged to rent (for $800) a twin-engined Beechcraft, registered as N 68100, at the Linden, N.J. airport. At a field on nearby Staten Island, he had it fitted to carry extra gasoline tanks. On March 12 at 9:44 a.m., he took off from Newark Airport, announcing his destination as Miami. But at 10:30 a.m. he landed at Zahns Airport in Amityville, L.I. That night, Murphy said later, a "cancer patient" was transferred from an ambulance to the plane. It was the same night that Galíndez vanished. Early the next morning...
...move in President Carroll M. Shanks's campaign to decentralize the company's insurance and investment business, put it in closer touch with its customers around the U.S. Since 1948, President Shanks has spent millions to move large chunks of the Pru's business from its Newark headquarters to regional offices in Los Angeles, Houston, Minneapolis, Jacksonville, Toronto and Chicago. Said Shanks: "Our projects apparently stimulated other people to invest and press forward for a developing local economy. The same will be true in Boston. We expect more and more investments to go into New England...