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Word: memo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle-aged people. Edsel was to strike a happy medium. As one researcher said, it would be "the smart car for the younger executive or professional family on its way up." To get this image across, Ford even went to the trouble of putting out a 60-page memo on the procedural steps in the selection of an advertising agency, turned down 19 applicants before choosing Manhattan's Foote, Cone & Belding. Total cost of research, design, tooling, expansion of production facilities: $250 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The $250 Million Flop | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...thought it was all right?" said Dr. Splint. From where he sat, Vag could see Dr. Splint begin to write "non-aggressive" on a memo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ordeal by Stethoscope | 11/21/1959 | See Source »

...order that I may be fully prepared for my general examinations next year." Methodically, Delwood turned to page 176 in the catalogue and found his prey. MWF at 12--great, noon is a fine time for political theory, good old political theory." He made a note on his personalized memo...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Blue Noon | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...Louis J. Hector, 43, most outspoken and independent thinker on the five-man Civil Aeronautics Board, resigned last week after 2½ years of taking strong objection to the board's performance. A former Rhodes scholar and Miami lawyer, Democrat Hector sent a 72-page memo to President Eisenhower with his resignation, urged a sweeping reorganization of the functions of the nation's regulatory agencies to rid them of detail and give them more independence. He also suggested less CAB control of the airlines, more freedom to make their own decisions on strictly business matters. Wrote Hector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Burns seizes every chance to pick a brain or dissect an idea, even when he is with his wife or son or daughter. He scribbles his ideas on memo sheets or matchbooks, empties them out of his pockets in the morning, when his secretary fires them off to RCA executives. On the way from his twelve-room stone house in Greenwich. Conn, to his antique-studded office on the 53rd floor of Manhattan's RCA Building, he usually takes along an RCA executive for a back-seat conference in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac. Visiting the U.S. exhibit in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Management's Renaissance Man | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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