Word: rea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...POWER is in the works for rural power cooperatives. The Atomic Energy Commission and the Rural Electrification Administration have offered four Texas power co-ops a chance to try out nuclear reactors ranging from 5,000 to 40,000 kw. capacity. Managers of the Texas coops will meet with REA and other officials in Phoenix, Ariz. to find out how much the reactors will cost, how they can be used in REA systems, and whether the Government will help share in the cost of the experiments...
Despite this progress, the get-out-of-business program still has far to go, against plenty of opposition. Government agencies, the Hoover Commission recently found, are almost impossible to kill. "REA is an example . . . Although more than 90% of the nation's farms are electrified, the sponsors of the REA program foresee no end to the need for ever-increasing amounts of Government loans for rural electrification." Many another agency is dragging its feet. Probably the worst offenders are in the Defense Department, where empire builders try to justify their activities by crying "national security...
...William) Harold Rea, 47, president of Canadian Oil Companies Ltd., was a logical choice for guest speaker at last week's meeting of Toronto's National Sales Executive Club. Rea's company, a 98.7% Canadian-owned firm, is one of Canada's fastest-growing oil and gas companies. Its 1954 report showed a $2,000,000 sales increase and a 20% rise in net profit over...
...topic, Speaker Rea chose to tell "a true story of a business problem faced by the chief executive of a medium-sized company." The executive, said Rea, was deeply worried about the state of his company's business, as well as the efficiency of his own office and the top men around him. On a friend's recommendation, he took his problem to a psychologist...
...Harold Rea's surprise ending to his true story made it Topic A in Toronto business circles for days afterward: "The company I have been talking about is my own company. The chief executive I have been talking about was your speaker...