Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Your preliminary summary of the complicated Navajo problem and the urgency of stock reduction to save the soil on the reservation, was remarkable. I never would have believed the matter could be stated so completely in so little space...
Curtiss Quandary. As Odlum's problem was to get rid of capital he couldn't use, the main Curtiss-Wright problem has been to get new capital. Like other U. S. aircraft companies, it has grown from small beginnings by ploughing earnings back into new plant capacity. Now its biggest problem is to fill $140,000,000 of new orders quickly and profitably, to find means of taking a great many more new orders which could be bagged by any company with the right product and idle capacity. For three reasons Curtiss-Wright has been unable to raise...
...months Guy Vaughan and Curtiss' 14 other directors tried to solve the problem by finding a way to get rid of the "A" stock. This has been selling around $30 but, since it is redeemable at $40, the company could not afford to retire it. First sub-committees of the board were formed to work on the problem. Then, in despair, each director was told to tackle it as a committee...
...Curtiss-Wright meeting one day, Odlum asked whether the other 14 committees had a solution. They hadn't. He asked for a day, returned with a description of a hypothetical "X Corporation," told how a marriage with hail of "X Corporation" would solve Curtiss' problem. The directors agreed, but they did not tumble until Odlum spelled out the name of "X Corporation": ATLAS...
...this has been transformed by the magic eye of the camera and the Hollywood touch. As a film, The Primrose Path has become a problem picture with false notes from Steinbeck. Grandma (Queenie Vassar) still likes it carnal, is still a coy and bawdy frump, still gets...