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...finished Harvard Business School in 1927, went to work as an assistant to W. T. Holliday, president of Standard Oil of Ohio. While riding Standard's tank trucks and dropping in at filling stations, Swensrud always asked the "Why" for everything, jotted down the answers in a little notebook. He found out so many things that executives who played by ear couldn't answer that he rose swiftly to vice president. He was marked for the top job at Sohio when Gulf hired him away in 1947 as successor to aging President J. F. Drake, who stepped...
Despite the empire's size, Swensrud soon knew it inside & out, traveling its reaches in Gulf planes, asking questions, jotting down answers in his notebook. In Swensrud's first year, Gulf's sales passed the $1 billion mark for the first time in history...
...wrote it for an English course at St. Mark's," he replied. The other agent yanked out a notebook, handed it to Adams, and asked the same question. "Yes, I used that for a French course," he answered...
...Good Lord," breathed Lawrence, as he slid back to his chair and scribbled in his notebook. For a few spine-tingling seconds, the 154 reporters could see the big black headline: TRUMAN BACKS IKE FOR PRESIDENT. Then NBC's Frank Bourgholtzer spoke up in disbelief: "Does that mean that if Ike wants to be President, you will help...
...Princeton University Library acquired an arithmetic notebook kept by a 14-year-old New Jersey schoolboy back in 1721. Sample problem: "A Certain man and his wife did usually drink out a vessell of beere in 12 dayes and the Husband found by offten experience That his wife being absent it would Last him 20 dayes then. Question is how many dayes the wife would be a drinking it alone...