Word: colbert
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Francisco, or pouring the carafe of water over the Big Boss's head in The Hucksters. He often pioneered shock scenes. In Red Dust (1932) he discovered Jean Harlow bathing in a rain barrel, and in It Happened One Night (1934) he shared a tourist cabin with Claudette Colbert, their beds divided by a blanket stretched on a rope. In the same picture, when he took off his shirt and revealed nothing but a glossy chest, he touched off a crisis among undershirt manufacturers...
...Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert is charged with helping Budd Co. get die orders in 1957 and 1960 on a time-and-material cost basis, which the complaint terms "unheard of" in the auto industry...
...Comedy Spot (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Welcome to Washington, with Claudette Colbert as a freshman Congresswoman with some not so fresh problems...
...billion, earnings of $2.15 per share v. $2.08 in the first half of 1959. Though Chrysler's first-half sales were up 14% to $1.75 billion, earnings thudded from 1959's $6.65 per share to $2.69. The principal reason, explained Chrysler Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, who was also deep in other troubles (see below), was "lower profit margins on the economy-type cars." Ford felt the pangs of the compacts' success the most (42% of Ford cars sold in the second quarter were compacts) : though Ford sold more cars in the first half of this year...
Chrysler of late has been suffering from a profitless prosperity; first-quarter profits dropped 28% in 1960 under 1959, though sales were up 34%. Part of the problem is rising costs, but Colbert is determined that none of the slippage should result from supplier overcharging and executive rake-offs...