Word: provo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasis to self-service stores in burgeoning suburban shopping centers. To spark its superstore and self-service programs, Woolworth's in 1954 picked a lifetime employee named Robert Campbell Kirkwood, who had started as a stock checker right out of high school in his home town of Provo, Utah 36 years before. Trim, quiet-spoken Bob Kirkwood, 54, did so well at the job that he became president and chief executive officer in 1958, when James Thomas Leftwich moved up to chairman (Leftwich resigned three months...
...largest U.S. variety-store chain (2,121 stores in the U.S., Canada and Cuba), was named president, succeeding James T. Leftwich, 69, who remains as chairman. Bob Kirkwood had decided on a career in pharmacy after high school, was lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture for success: administrative talent with the ability to get along with people. He bossed...
...upturn after the summer slump. And they are going ahead full power with modernization programs designed to trim operating costs still further, will invest an estimated $273 million in the third quarter v. $222 million for the same period last year. Says Chicago & Northwestern's Vice President Larry Provo: "The general situation in rail earnings will improve by the end of the year. Everybody thinks so. But then, they thought so in the second quarter...
...MARVIN N. NELSON Provo, Utah...
Eventually, he more than fulfilled his vow. In 1950 he took over as president, promptly launched the most vigorous building campaign that shaky B.Y.U. had ever known. In 1954 top Mormon leaders gathered on campus in Provo to dedicate not one, but 22 modern buildings. Last week they were back again to dedicate twelve more. In only seven years, Ernest Wilkinson, 58, has turned B.Y.U. into one of the largest church-owned universities in the U.S., with a 1957 enrollment of more than...