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...join the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. Sent to Connecticut for training, he never left for Europe because the war ended. So the teen had to find work, which he did, first as a piano player and then, in 1922, as a salesman for the Lily Tulip...
...create value." GE's Jack Welch, soon after becoming CEO, earned the label "Neutron Jack" for closing plants and laying off workers. He's a prince compared to "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap. A West Point graduate and former paratrooper, Dunlap struck like Sherman and crowed about it. At Lily Tulip he fired 50% of the corporate office; at Crown-Zellerbach, 20% of the work force; at Scott Paper, 11,000 employees. After firing 6,000 at Sunbeam, Chainsaw himself got axed by a pair of fire-breathing shareholders: Ronald Perelman, never mistaken for Mr. Congeniality, and Michael Price, a.k.a. the "scariest...
...Scott Paper, Dunlap's last labor, doing these days? Swallowed by Kimberly-Clark. How about former charge Lily-Tulip Inc.? Now a lean, mean division of Fort Howard Paper Co. Once Dunlap's bum-to-plum magic act is done lining shareholder pockets (Dunlap himself owns several million in Sunbeam stock), he takes the last sure price-boosting step: feeding it to a big rival. Then ? poof! ? he's gone...
Unencumbered by the notion that they may be operating out of expropriated property, foreign hotel companies like Club Med (France), Sol Melia (Spain), Golden Tulip (Netherlands) and Delta Hotels (Canada) grabbed prime spots and locked up lucrative hotel-management contracts. Cuba now has some 200 hotels offering 27,000 rooms--more than Puerto Rico and the Bahamas combined. "It's a profound disappointment that we are enjoined from building hotels and a tourism infrastructure there, while our competitors from around the world are allowed to enter and pick the fine sites," laments Marilyn Carlson Nelson, vice chairman of Carlson companies...
...warmth of the outside, the tulip buds and the smell of wet grass...