Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miscellaneous Orders (e.g., transmissions, tank track, trailers, etc.): Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; G.M.'s Allison Division, $26 million; Timken-Detroit Axle Co., $29 million; Fruehauf Trailer Co., $34 million; G.M.'s Chevrolet, $6 million; American Steel Foundries, $15.8 million; Continental Motors Corp., $95 million...
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. last week test-flew its new two-motored turboprop transport plane, first in the U.S. The plane, powered by Allison engines geared to propellers, is a modification of Convair's 240, a 40-passenger ship used on commercial lines. Consolidated expects its new plane to be as fast as and more efficient than jet transports for short-and medium-range hops...
...Force Veteran Mark Allison first saw the jungles of the Amazon when he flew over them as a Pan Am pilot before the war. They fascinated him-and so did a little Brazilian's yarn about an unexplored Amazon valley region which promised gold and probably oil. But soon after he set out with his wife in a private plane to look for the promised land, Pilot Allison crashed and his wife was killed. Shorn of the will to go on as a pilot, Allison settled down in the dreary river town of Manaos, became a hard-drinking...
Eventually Allison changed his mind, of course. When a big U.S. development company sent an expedition up the Amazon to explore the fabled area, he signed on for the trip. It just happened that Heroine Christine Barna was along, looking for her husband, a lost scientist. River of the Sun is Novelist James Ramsey Ullman's story of their expedition into the jungles of the Amazon...
Thomas Carey Hennings Jr., 47, of St. Louis, who had to buck Harry Truman's hand-picked candidate (lackluster State Senator Emery Allison) in the primaries and hard-campaigning Senator Forrest Donnell in the finals. An ardent internationalist, Hennings campaigned against Donnell's dogged opposition to foreign aid. The son of a Missouri judge, breezy, twice-married Tom Hennings zipped through Cornell and Washington University Law School (where he passed a three-year course in two years). He was a Congressman for six years in the late '3as, distinguishing himself chiefly as a two-fisted drinker...