Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that they get the means and the will to win it. The new lift in morale came partly from the Allied governments, which had decided to plunge fresh resources into the war-more troops from France, more millions from the U.S. But in great part, it came from slim, trim Henri Navarre...
...year-old monarchs of the Middle East went sightseeing together in Bethlehem. King Hussein of Jordan, in military uniform, and his cousin, King Feisal II of Iraq, wearing a trim business suit, were photographed in a solemn mood at the birthplace of Christ...
...Reichhold has not taken his eyes from his main objective: running his company to keep prices low. With his new resin, developed by the same Dr. Hoenel who perfected his original resin, he expects to help automakers trim $5 from the cost of painting an average car (now about $15 to $20). If his sales grow as fast as he thinks they will, Reichhold plans to cut his profits to 1%. Says he: "We want to be the A & P of the chemical industry...
...Wilson, one of Chicago's most durable executives, finally decided to retire at 85, after 66 years in the meatpacking business. Into the chairmanship went Wilson's redhaired, Princeton-educated son, Edward Foss Wilson, 48, president since 1934. Wilson's new president and chief executive officer: trim (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) James D. Cooney, 60, a country lawyer turned corporation counsel, who joined Wilson in 1926. Educated at the University of Iowa, Cooney learned to fly in World War I, later hung out his shingle at West Union, Iowa, and rose to district judge handling "mine...
Paul's greatest wish, said the story, was to see Ike, whom he admires even more than his TV-cowboy heroes. A few minutes after church services ended, a trim figure of a man strode up to the Haleys' small clapboard house in West Denver. "Good morning," said the President of the U.S. to wide-eyed Paul Haley. "I hear you want to see me." He chatted for five minutes, then slipped away before reporters and photographers could find...