Word: allisons
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...General Motors' Allison engine division and Westinghouse. which produced the first U.S.-designed turbojet, both have lost much ground. Though Allison leads the turboprop field and will produce the engines for Lockheed's C-130A Hercules transport and new Electra airliner, it has only a small slice of the big jet market. Finally, Westinghouse has been beset by so many engine bugs that it is pinning most of its hopes on the new, medium-sized J54 jet which it has developed with $12.5 million of its own funds, hopes to sell to the Navy and Air Force...
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (20th Century...
...refusing to join a union). More significant, as a sign of how U.S.-style enlightened capitalism looks at labor-management relations, was the unpublicized opposition, while the measure was in the legislative mill, of several Indiana big businessmen. Among them: executives of Radio Corp. of America, Seagrams (liquor), the Allison Division (turbojet engines) of General Motors, and Cummins Engine, which manufactures half the diesel engines that propel U.S. trucks...
...Former Ambassador to Japan John Allison, 51, Dulles' principal staff deputy in Japanese peace-treaty negotiations, has been named Ambassador to Indonesia...
Last week friends hailed MacArthur's appointment to succeed Ambassador John Allison as "a natural." But the feeling was not universal; commented Tokyo's second biggest newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, "The name MacArthur will not make the man's job any easier." The job: to follow up Allison's "civilianizing" of post-occupation Japanese-American relations. Chief problems: the future status of U.S. military bases in Japan, growing demands for return of such prewar Japanese possessions as Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, Japan's desire for more trade with Communist China...