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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strong Markets." In Washington, another chief executive watched all this and happily brought forth some statistics of his own. Looking like a prosperous chairman of the board, Lyndon Johnson began his first formal TV press conference by announcing that the gross national product had scored its highest year-to-year gain in two years, rising $8.5 billion during the first quarter to an annual rate of $608.5 billion. Progress was being made in cutting back unemployment, and labor had gained more than 4,000,000 jobs since early 1961. Johnson did not mention it, but the Federal Reserve just...
Thus the most important selling job that Lee Iacocca did at Ford was to get the Mustang going. The project started quietly in January 1961 when Don Frey, a bright young engineer whom Iacocca had made his product planning manager, asked the advance styling department to draw up designs for a little sports car. When it produced a trim clay model of a little two-seater that looked like a rocket, Iacocca invited Grand Prix Driver Dan Gurney and other racing buffs in to give their opinions. Recalls Iacocca: "All the buffs said, 'What...
Five years ago the company took a calculated risk, becoming the first European corporation since World War II to take over an American firm. It now holds 90% of the stock of foundering Underwood, onetime leader in the U.S. business-machines field, whose ragged research and inadequate product line had pushed it into hard times. But Olivetti had hardly nursed Underwood back from a 1959 sales low of $75 million to annual sales of $117 million - and a profit last month for the first time - when other problems appeared...
Slow Delivery. This bitter satire of Eastern Europe's consumer market is not just a product of imagination. Junketing through Hungary last week, Nikita Khrushchev seemed to dwell more on the muddles than on the marvels of the Communist economic system...
...young and struggling U.S., and in 1802 set up his factory on the Brandywine; later he added a woolen mill. From those modest beginnings sprang the $3.3 billion empire that today spans much of the world with 117 factories employing 93,000 workers turning out 1,200 products. It has become the greatest chemical company in the world's history, a company that has spent apparently reckless millions on apparently useless laboratory research, and seen it pay off. Most of Du Pont's current products are things that never existed on land or sea until Du Pont research...