Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tight Controls. Zenith is led by Scottish-born Chairman Hugh Robertson, a vigorous 74-year-old who prides himself on the fact that Zenith is not one cent in debt. Day-to-day management of the company is left to lanky Montanan Joseph Wright, 50, who joined Zenith as a lawyer in 1953, became president three years ago. Since Zenith's headquarters and production facilities are all centered in Chicago. Wright and a platoon of bright, aggressive vice presidents are able to keep a close personal watch on every phase of the company's operations. "With each...
Zenith has probably the best inventory control in the entire radio-TV industry. Each week the company's 600 distributors send to Chicago complete sales reports on each model line. If a model is not selling well, production is immediately cut back. Says Wright: "We are not trying to break production records, but only to meet true market demands." As a result, Zenith's entire factory inventory turns over once a month...
...policed by a three-headed international commission composed of a Russian, an American and a "neutralist"-any one of whom could veto any action toward inspection. The Soviets call this lovely notion "troika" (see THE WORLD). The West calls it tripe. Says the British delegate at Geneva, Sir Michael Wright: "Troika ends hopes for a nuclear test ban, for controlled disarmament, and-worse still-for any kind of international peace-keeping machinery. This is an act of international sabotage...
When they built the first airplane that carried a man, the Wright brothers were inspired tinkerers, not original thinkers; they did not concoct the theories on which their contraption was based. That job had largely been done by a British baronet who published a lengthy paper on aerodynamics in 1809, nearly a century before Orville Wright made his historic 120-ft. hop. In a new book, Sir George Cayley (Max Parrish, London; 425.), Aeronautics Historian J. Laurence Pritchard, former secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society, has put together an astonishing catalog of the accomplishments of that prolific genius...
...Crimson covered the 2000 meter course at Lake Quinsigamond in 6:09:2 to retain possession of the Joseph Wright Trophy. Since the trophy was inaugurated in 1938 Harvard has won nine times...