Word: macnaughton
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Died. Ernest Boyd MacNaughton, 79, president of the Portland, Ore. First National Bank from 1932 to 1947 and its board chairman ever since, who was moderator of the American Unitarian Associa tion from 1950 to 1952, president of the Oregonian Publishing Company from
...cancer; in Portland. Of all his multiple interests, the indefatigable MacNaughton most relished his unpaid post at endowment-dwindling Reed. Ending about every extravagance except the famed twelve-man classes ("We don't want to water down our professors with students"), the blustery Scot, a self-styled "Republican with a move on," badgered his conservative friends into unprecedented contributions to what they had long considered "those Reed pinkos," put the college in the black for the first time in years...
...countries where it is produced. Of the remaining 14 million tons, more than 8,000,000 tons will be sold to nations with quota systems similar to the U.S. The remaining 6,000,000 tons, which sells at the world market price, is largely surplus sugar. Says Boyd MacNaughton, president of C. Brewer & Co. Ltd., Hawaii's second largest sugar company: "The so-called 'world market' is a dumping ground for surplus sugar that doesn't have a home...
...Sugarman Boyd MacNaughton...
While per-capita sugar consumption in developed countries has leveled off or even declined, it is soaring in the rapidly developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. This trend was first spotted two years ago by President Boyd MacNaughton, 51, of Hawaii's second largest sugar company, C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., which arranged to design and operate a 25,000-acre sugar plantation for Iran. Said MacNaughton: "If we want to grow and expand in the sugar business, we have to do it outside Hawaii and the U.S." Into the Sudan. Both Sugar International and Brewer are seeking...