Word: reeds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suggested boycotting the speech, Fulbright persuaded them that it would be "foolish" and "disrespectful of the soldiers in Viet Nam." About the only notable absentee was Dirksen, who was stricken with pneumonia after a long spell in his garden on a chilly day and was confined to Walter Reed Army Hospital. Twenty-three Governors, the Joint Chiefs, the diplomatic corps and the entire Cabinet-excepting Rusk, who watched on TV-were on hand...
...seafarer, Reed Oliver Hunt has fared remarkably well on land. As chairman and chief executive of San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach Corp., one of the world's largest manufacturers of paper products, Hunt, 62, presides over an empire that controls 2,730,000 acres of forest, operates 15 mills, keeps 26,000 people working. Through its subsidiary Zellerbach Paper Co., the company markets some 25,000 products. At its annual meeting last week Crown Zellerbach announced record first-quarter earnings of $11.7 million on sales of $187.5 million-which sent its stock to a 1967 high...
Hoping to keep those figures growing, C.Z. is in the final stages of a $300 million expansion program. When it comes to such ambitious undertakings, restless Reed Hunt has plenty of experience, having already helped transform Crown Zellerbach from a purely paper operation into a diversified forest-products company that produces such items as multiwall bags, laminated stock, coated magazine paper and synthetic wrappers for quick-frozen foods...
...effort to alter that situation. Running with Bravo's backing for the nonpartisan school board, Nava-the son of an indigent harp maker and winner of a Bravo scholarship loan to finish Harvard-was coursing the city in his green Volkswagen in a catalytic campaign against Incumbent Charles Reed Smoot, who has alienated the city's minorities by publicly opposing textbooks with added chapters on minority groups' contributions to America...
...grasp of the Russians, brought them to help rocketeers at U.S. bases, notably the Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., which he commanded from 1954 to 1958, and where he led the development of such missiles as the Nike, Corporal, Hawk, Redstone and Honest John; after a long illness; at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington...