Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state's top Republicans. pro-Nixon Senator Styles Bridges and leaning-to-Nixon Governor Wesley Powell. Same day the Rockefeller "Committee of 40" let it be known that it would shortly be expanded to a "Committee of 150." Among the recruits: Dartmouth President Dr. John Sloan Dickey...
Cole rapidly began to build his own team-the team that was to build Corvair -and he laid plans to triple Chevy's 851-man engineering staff. Just a few weeks after Cole moved in, G.M. held a top executive planning session, and Board Chairman Alfred Sloan Jr. demanded unexpectedly: "What about Chevy?" It was the kind of moment that every aggressive young executive dreams about. Cole replied with cool confidence: "I just happen to have some plans for expanding Chevrolet engineering, and I'm ready to show them any time you wish." G.M. appreciates that kind...
With the acceptance of five Sloan National Scholars as members of the Class of '63, Harvard has been added to the 32 colleges and universities throughout the country where scholarships are awarded from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...
...five Sloan Scholars are Dwight M. Bissell, David E. Crandall, Frank N. Newman, John F. Schivell, and Vernon F. Strand. All of the award winners plan to concentrate in science or engineering fields...
...programs on many scientific fronts brought Dr. Rhoads to another conclusion unpopular in medical circles: a frontal attack on cancer, with experts in a dozen sciences working toward the same goal, should pay off faster than the traditional uncoordinated approach of peacetime. In General Motors' Boss Alfred P. Sloan Jr. he found a kindred spirit. Sloan put up the first $4,000,000, laid the foundations for the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research-a 14-story tower of hope beside Memorial Hospital. Rhoads was its director...