Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that it is fairly well known that Nan Wood Graham was the woman who posed for American Gothic [May 10], but I have always been puzzled about why the identity of the man in this famous painting should be so shrouded in anonymity. He was Dr. B. H. McKeeby, and he was a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, dentist. It is a local Cedar Rapids legend-this being a case where the legend may be the truth-that Grant Wood picked Dr. McKeeby as a model while McKeeby was filling Grant's tooth...
...Bigger. Wood's coup, and others to come, earned him Sears's presidency in 1928, its chairmanship in 1939, and promised Sears unchallenged retailing superiority for decades ahead. In the years between Wood's arrival and his retirement next week from the company's board at 88 (he gave up the chairmanship in 1954), Sears has grown from a rural mail-order house doing a $200 million-a-year business to a vast corporation with sales of more than $500 million a month. Its 50-state organization includes 809 full-line stores, 1,731 smaller catalogue...
Currently, that direction points toward $10 billion annual sales in 1970, a goal that will be easily exceeded if the company maintains its current a-year growth rate. Wood's own ideas are still generating much of that impressive growth. Simple expansion, which he daringly pressed after World War II when competitors were fearfully holding back, is one factor: Sears's $190 million expansion plans for this year include 35 new stores, nine of them in Eastern states where sales have jumped by 63% since 1962. Another still-blossoming Wood notion is insurance. Sears's Allstate subsidiary...
...races to Forward Pass and Dancer's Image. Sir Beau, Out of the Way, and Dancer's Image's half-brother Jig Time are all late-runners who have yet to prove their worth against top company. Martin's Jig finished fifth in his last start, at a mile. Wood-Pro has won once in two years. Nodouble, a supplementary entry at $10,000, is unbeaten this year but against much lesser opposition. I have never heard of either Ringmaster or Poleax, for what they are worth, which is probably not much...
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