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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anti-Nibble Role. The Berlin crisis focused attention on the U.S. Army at work-and made clear the urgency of a convincing definition of the Army's mission in the crises that are bound to lie ahead. Gone is the day when the U.S. needs a massive Army to match the enemy's massive Army, for an all-out struggle would soon bring tactical nuclear air-power into play, ultimately the Strategic Air Command and carrier strike forces. But gone also is the day when airpower theorists can write off the Army as mere "trip wire" or "plate...
...varsity baseball team produced its second consecutive shutout victory yesterday afternoon, turning back M.I.T., 3 to 0, at Soldiers Field. The Crimson has defeated its last four opponents (Boston College, Columbia, and Princeton, besides Tech), a situation which bodes well for the important games which lie ahead...
Buoyed by still rising production, automakers last week rolled out a glittering group of quarterly earnings reports and said that still better times are ahead...
Ward's weighty wager on the future will cost $500 million over the next five years. It has reason for confidence; Ward's sales (1958 total: $1.1 billion) rode 19% ahead of last year's in February and March, will probably show a 14% gain for April, "We are on the eve of a decade of great economic activity," said Chairman Barr. "We would not embark on a program of this scope if we did not have great faith in the future of our economy...
...airliners, Lear has been doing well enough. Piedmont Airlines, a feeder line, has installed Lear instrument-landing equipment on eight of its planes, has found it "very satisfactory." Ozark Air Lines, another feeder, has also signed up. Lear profits in the first quarter of its fiscal year ran 33% ahead of 1958 (which registered an 87% gain over 1957) to better than $400,000. The backlog of firm orders was up to $77 million, biggest in the company's history, and a 10? dividend was declared, the third such quarterly dividend in a row. Last week Bill Lear...