Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first question to the artist was: "Are you going to paint me as a tiger or a cherub?" Had Sutherland tried to catch something of both, he might have got results. Instead he took the easier course of choosing a single dramatic aspect-the tiger. He got nine short sittings in which to bag it. His studies on view last week showed a robed tiger in the Order of the Garter, a cigar-chomping tiger, a tiger weary unto death, and a fat but hungry tiger. Each clearly caught a mood. But by concentrating on the tiger, each missed...
...Pont. In chemicals and mining, Union Carbide, Du Pont and National Gypsum all reported banner sales and earnings. At Union Carbide, President Morse G. Dial listed alltime record sales of $857 million, record earnings of $101 million for the first nine months, 60% higher than 1954. Du Pont hit new peaks with sales of $1.4 billion, earnings of $6.24 a share at the three-quarter mark v. $4.74 last year. In the booming electronics industry, civilian sales were so good that General Electric President Ralph J. Cordiner could announce the second-best year in history thus far-sales...
Pretty Picture. The news was just as good in railroads, steel, aluminum, heavy manufacturing. After slim pickings in 1954, the Pennsylvania Railroad announced the best profit in ten years: President James M. Symes totaled the nine-month revenue at $690 million, with a $32 million net that was a whopping 172% better than 1954, Crucible Steel did even better in the percentage race, with nine-month sales of $172 million, a $9,000,000 profit, 434% higher than last year's poor earnings. Eastman Kodak President Albert K. Chapman showed a pretty picture to stockholders: he reported new highs...
...multitude of problems, last week faced a new one: 45,560 employees, members of the C.I.O. International Union of Electrical Workers, walked out, idling 10,000 other workers and shutting down roughly half of the company's production. Main points in Westinghouse's first major strike in nine years...
Grade-School Tycoon. A hearty, glad-handing man of 61, McNamara is one of eight children of a St. Louis bricklayer. He began his business career at nine, outside Sportsman's Park, selling newspapers and score cards. He quit school at twelve, drove a team of horses for a local grocer for $4 a week and, at 21, failed at running his own grocery. In 1917 he took a job in a St. Louis store of the Kroger chain, eventually became chief trouble-shooter for the whole chain (3,174 stores). He quit to join National Tea because Kroger...