Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LAST week, while U.S. citizens thought about their 1959 cards, Hall was going over the 1960 line, studying it during the day, taking it home at night to see how it looked by the light of the fireplace in his Georgian mansion set on a 700-acre farm outside Kansas...
ALMOST every U.S. businessman gives away some samples of his product, but few can match Joyce Clyde Hall, 68, founder and president of Hallmark greeting cards. Some time in the next few days. Hall will choose a Christmas card from this year's Hallmark line and send it to...
AT an age when most men are put out to pasture, Hall still operates like a one-man gang, working seven days a week, making the decisions, supervising every aspect of his business. "I used to think." says the lean, balding Midwesterner, "that when I got old, I would not...
Immigration to crack production bottlenecks and bring new blood to the isolated country was another big factor. A third was a huge public works program that has spent $1.2 billion to standardize the nation's chaotic five-gauge railroad system, build new airports, roads, telephone and telegraph lines, and...
De Beers' Chairman Harry Oppenheimer, who took over when his father died in 1957, says he will not produce the synthetic stones unless it becomes "economically necessary." The diamond combine prefers to concentrate on its monopoly on gems and natural industrial stones, developed its process to prevent any other...