Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disposition, a scornful disdain of public relations, an unfailing nose for what he dislikes and a sure eye for what he wants: the easy, lounging air that the New Yorker affects. Last week, a former employee named Russell Maloney tried to reconcile the shock-haired man with his brilliantined product. Maloney worked for Ross for eleven years and resigned at last because he "felt rather middle-aged and pooped...
Another Emmanuel product, Miss Grace O'Neill of Boston, sighed sadly in reminiscing over the past weeks, as she voted "thumbs down on eight out of ten of your typical Harvard men. But then," she brightened, "there's always the other...
Summer Dividend. To improve relations with its stockholders, McKesson & Robbins, Inc. offered them a free sample of its newest product, a suntan lotion. Of 17,000 holders of common stock, some 5,000 wrote right...
...onetime summer home at Deer Lake Farms, near Detroit. Under tents, Young Henry and 300 guests quaffed beer and cocktails, munched cold meats and salad, buffet-style, then watched a new Ford tractor plow the hard clay of the field outside. Said Young Henry, introducing his latest product: "Since the days of my grandfather ... we have always had one foot in the soil, and one foot in industry. We will continue that policy...
Start a Squabble? Last week the stock was still unfloated, the plant still idle. Worse, many of his dealers had deserted to Dearborn Motors. They would find their new product, retailing at $1,095 f.o.b. Detroit, familiar. At the party on Dearborn Motors' experimental farm - purchased last year from Henry II-those who saw the new tractor thought it looked so much like the Ford-Ferguson machine that many predicted a patent squabble...