Anatomy of a Corporation
A study of American Cyanamid Co headquarted in Wayne New Jersey explores how a corporation grows through acquisitions and product diversification. The piece follows leadership views on expansion, risk, and the balancing act between size and profitability within a complex corporate structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Cyanamid Co
Wayne N. J
Niagara Falls
Frank Washburn
Lie detector debate aids police and private detectives
Local police and private investigators defend polygraphs as useful investigation aids though courts reject their evidentiary value. The article notes polygraphs measure physiological changes to reveal truthfulness and are used in civil screening of bank and factory employees.
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John Staley
United States
Washington
Skinner
North State Detective Agency
Mower Runs Amok As Housewife Finishes Yard
A High Point woman starts a power mower that will not stop. After calling her husband and with the mower running, she uses the rest of the front and side yards to trim, then the back yard as the gas runs out. The incident ends with the mower still roaring.
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High Point
Five Letter Word For The Thing Pitchers Stand On
A boss hears a wife on the phone and asks a riddle about a five letter word. The answer is MOUND as workers wonder at the odd moment during a sales meeting. A police log notes a dull call about a man and woman in a restroom. women are booked for being gassed, the man released.
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Police Dispatchers
Eisenhower on Gettysburg What If A Peremptory Order
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower imagines a different Civil War outcome in a Parade interview. He argues Lincoln should have sent a direct order to Gen. Meade to pursue Lee after Gettysburg and suggests Confederate Gen. Lee might have captured Cemetery Hill if Lee had pressed at night. He contends Meade missed a decisive chance.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Parade Magazine
Eisenhower
Abraham Lincoln
George G. Meade
Gettysburg
Jack Anderson
Meade
Lee
Lincoln
Cemetery Hill
Army of the Potomac
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