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...towns and cities surrounding the nation's great aero space plants, the future long gleamed as brightly as a jet liner in a sunny sky. Jobs were plentiful, wages and aspirations ran high and local businessmen thrived. A sense of well-being enveloped the skilled aerospace workers, especially the scientists and engineers who saw themselves at the head of the country's drive toward technological preeminence. They were the crew-cut exemplars of the puritan ethic, doing useful work for a good, glamorous cause...
...sales campaign, including $192,000 on transatlantic air fares alone. In 1968 the company won an order to build 540 engines for $840,000 each. Lockheed executives crowed that it was "the best price deal we ever made." David Huddie, then head of Rolls' aero-engine division, was knighted for winning such a giant export contract. "The secret," he said, "is to be like a duck-smooth and unruffled on top but paddling like hell underneath...
...readily acknowledged their friendship with Fred Vahlsing Jr. Though he considered himself a Republican, the rough-edged chief of a New Jersey-based food-products operation regularly purchased tables at Democratic fund-raising affairs, entertained politicians at his hotel suite and occasionally flew them around in one of his Aero Commanders. Equally important, Freddie sought to boost the state's shaky economy by opening Maine's first sugar refinery, enabling farmers to take advantage of a much-prized 33,000-acre federal sugar-beet quota...
...investors are heeding brokers' advice to hold on and ride out the difficult period. "Hell, I've got no choice," says an Akron rubber-company executive who early this year sold all his previous holdings and put the proceeds into Nuclear Corporation of America at 5 and Aero-Flow Dynamics at 14. Last week Nuclear sold as low as 41 and Aero-Flow dipped under 12. Says the executive: "I can't sell. I can't afford the loss." Besides, he adds, "The market is bound to start up-maybe this week. I would go back...
Reports of Harvard men killed in action were on the front page of the CRIMSON all year. Captain Hamilton Coolidge '19, is an example of their bravery. He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by General Pershing for heroism in action while serving with the 94th Aero Squadron near Grandpre, France on October...