Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Thousand Yards from Work. To be closer to his work, Mortimer built a nine-room house about a thousand yards from the company building in White Plains, N.Y., dubbed it "Done Commuting." He is devoted to his family, seldom brings his briefcase home or does business entertaining there. He...
Glatsky in the Future. What lies in the future for General Foods and the rest of the industry? One of the industry's widely heralded ventures, frozen soups, which were pioneered by Campbell's, are not going too well. Heinz dropped them after a brief try; General Foods...
The news brought only a statement from NSU that it was working on such an engine, which "still requires much research before it can become a commercial proposition." Privately, the Germans were furious; they claimed that the engine was their invention, that C-W had helped with development funds, and...
At that point, Chairman Hurley and C-W's board of directors had another piece of news: the company cut its quarterly dividend almost in half, from 62½? to 37½?. Sales for the first nine months of 1959 were down $40 million, with a $6,400,000...
English Bull. In Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, while welcoming delegates to the annual conference of Britain's Law Society, the deputy mayor announced that the mayor was out of town, explained: "If he were here, I am sure he would be the first to apologize for his absence."