Word: letourneau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Robert G. LeTourneau, 80, giant of the earth-moving industry, who for 33 years pledged 90% of his personal earnings to a myriad of Christian causes; of a stroke; in Longview, Texas. In an industry noted for the size and power of its machines, none matched the Brobdingnagian creations of LeTourneau, which constituted 70% of the heavy earth-moving equipment used in World War II. LeTourneau credited his success to a "partnership with God" made in 1932 when he resolved to pledge all his future profits and much of his energy to religion. "The more time I spent...
JOSEPH H. LETOURNEAU Public Relations Manager Alitalia New York City...
...product research. He obviously took a hefty pay cut from his former G.E. salary of $125,000, since Baldwin's President McClure Kelley himself gets a mere $76,200. Lewis J. Burger, 49, a G.E. division manager before he went off to jail, was elected president of LeTourneau Westinghouse Co., a subsidiary of Westinghouse Air Brake Co. that makes construction and earth-moving equipment. Frank E. Stehlik, a G.E. general manager who got a suspended sentence, was hired by Philco Corp. as manager of its communications and weapons division. Two other indicted G.E. executives have also landed jobs...