Word: alcoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whiting Girls, Ernestine. Shows that lease production facilities from Desilu: December Bride, Danny Thomas Show, Eve Arden Show, Red Skelton's filmed shows, Lineup, Wyatt Earp, The Real McCoys, Jim Bowie, Meet McGraw, Mr. Adams and Eve, Zone Grey Theater, Trackdown, Richard Diamond, Hey, Jeannie, Four Star Playhouse, Alcoa-Goodyear Theater. The famed I Love Lucy series is also on the air, but owned by CBS, which paid Desilu more than...
...railroaders attribute at least part of the trouble to winter snows that tied up Eastern lines during February, and note a small but definite uptrend so far in March. A second hint that companies may start ordering soon: during a walkout at Aluminum Co. of America's Alcoa (Tenn.) plant late in January, General Electric Co. got a court order after four days to enter the plant and get desperately needed aluminum it had on order...
Dozens of other companies have similar programs, including such corporate giants as General Motors, IBM, International Harvester, Alcoa, U.S. Steel and Ford Motor Co. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has put 1,800 executives through its four-year-old management training center in Asbury Park, N.J., offers additional training for thousands of executives among its far-flung subsidiaries. Most companies see to it that their executives get courses closely related to business, but a few have bravely plunged into more cultural territory. Bayuk Cigars Inc. (Phillies, Websters) gives its executives courses in anthropology and art, is planning-to add a course...
Potent Arm. Mayor Lawrence appeared on the municipal scene just when Financier Richard K. Mellon (Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Alcoa) and a platoon of lesser tycoons were preparing to rip their dowdy old city apart and rebuild it. Lawrence proved to be a valuable political ally. He ordered strict enforcement of smoke-control ordinances, pressured Democrats at Harrisburg and Washington to pass laws and approve appropriations that helped build new roads, bridges and dams. His reward: the business community's gratitude. Four years ago Lawrence's Republican opponent was not even invited to participate in the face...
...opened the week with the biggest one-day break since 1955. The Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted ten points to 423.06, lowest level since May 1955. Every major group took a beating in the slump, with drops in such stocks as Du Pont, American Telephone & Telegraph, Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, Alcoa and all but three of the 25 rails...