Ruth Handler Quotes
I did not think this doll could ever be this huge.
At the time McCarthy made this statement he was suffering from an advanced state of alcoholism. He was censured. See {619921}.
In the French & Indian War, Braddock had organized a military expedition to destroy some of the forts that the French had constructed. (See {37008}.) Braddock and the other military officers thought that the force Braddock had organized would be overwhelming and easily accomplish the objective. Benjamin Franklin was one of the only Colonial leaders who expressed concern about the expedition–{583427}. This was one of the first battles for a promising young officer named George Washington who had two horses shot out from under him.
Noriega had been running drug smuggling operations in the United States. In 1989, American Troops landed in Panama and arrested him. He was brought to the United States, tried, convicted and served a jail sentence and was then extradited to Panama where he was again jailed there for his crimes as doctator.
Ruth Marianna Handler was an American businesswoman and inventor. She served as the president of the toy manufacturer Mattel Inc., In 1959, she invented the Barbie doll, which sold over a billion worldwide. She was the founder and president of the world's largest toy company, which at its peak had 18,000 employees and annual sales of over $300 million. In 1974, the Handlers were forced to resign from Mattel, and in 1978 Ruth Handler was convicted of false reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
