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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Motors' George Romney announced that his company set a sales record of 351,317 Ramblers in its 1959-model fiscal year, a gain of 128% over last year. He predicted that for calendar 1960 total sales of compact and small cars will amount to 2,250,000 units, of which about 1,750,000 will be U.S.-built compact cars...
...company, though he didn't realize it." Avery had hobbled the entire firm with his one man rule (he had to okay every expenditure over $100), and knocked employee morale to the bottom. Net sales dropped from $1.1 billion in 1950 to $999 million in 1954. Barr set out to sweep out gloom, bring on a boom...
...plugging five years ago for a European graduate business school to serve the European Common Market he saw coming. The Paris Chamber of Commerce agreed to sponsor and administer the school. The European Productivity Agency offered to help pay professors' salaries; various European and U.S. companies gave money, set up a student loan fund that is helping 80% of the first class to pay the $1,400 tuition. Harvard delegated Doriot and Business School Dean Stanley F. Teele to help organize the school, contributed case histories of U.S. companies, arranged to assist in preparing case histories of European companies...
...seminary, he was quickly expelled. The second volume of the Putnam edition (the first was issued last spring, and four more will appear at half-year intervals) takes up the rake's progress when he is 23. Casanova has joined a runaway beauty named Henriette, set her up in a lavish apartment in Parma. In three months, he remarks mildly, "the only pleasure we took out of doors was a drive outside of the city when the weather was fine...
With 12,000 fans loudly voicing their fear of another upset, the Crimson finally revived. Halfback Larry Repsher gathered in the kickoff, scampered up the sidelines to the 40 yard line, and set off a scoring drive which put the game happily out of reach. Charlie Ravenel accounted for the last 12 yards with an electrifying sprint off left tackle...