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Word: purgee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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To achieve this quick turnaround, Rawlings, 58, put General Mills through a harsh purge. In what some call "Rawlings' earthquake," he named six new division managers, seven new plant managers and four vice presidents. And he liquidated General Mills' biggest liability -its animal-feed division, which had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: General at General Mills | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Herbert was quickly learning how little his opinion was worth. How dare he, a mere sophomore, set up his views against the considered judgment of men who had devoted their lives to thought in a given field. In the Spring of the year he determined to purge himself of...

Author: By Josiah. LEE Auspitz, | Title: The Education of Herbert | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

Today, Ampex is well on the road to recovery. This year the company expects to earn $3,500,000 on sales of $92 million, and its stock has risen from a 1962 low of $10 to $16.75 last week. But to accomplish its comeback Ampex has gone through a painful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Comeback for Ampex | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

She had no mind for anything but opera, and before Hitler took Poland she gushed to the press about his beautiful blue eyes. In 1941 she got a Nazi visa to return to occupied Norway, where she lived well on the profits of her husband's collaborationist lumber business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Liebestod | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

The man from Peking, who two weeks ago in Sofia had witnessed a purge of Red Chinese sympathizers and Stalinists in the Bulgarian Communist Party, would not be shouted down. The revisionists, he shot back, as usual using Tito as a synonym for Khrushchev, were "despicable traitors of the working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Split Is Real | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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