Word: asset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Which all goes to show that anyone with fact, gall and intelligence can raid the Big Ones for interviews and contributions; it would seem that the Island's evident weakness--its mimeographed format and tiny circulation--is a hidden asset when it deals with genuinely kind people like Auden. But it takes a lot of wit and perseverence to collect as impressive an issue as this one; Shaw, Plotz a Co. have done it well and quietly. I hope they persist...
...Viet Nam, the Big E-along with the only other nuclear vessel in the war, the destroyer Bainbridge-won straight A's from the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Both ships' performances had amply demonstrated the tactical advantages envisioned by their planners: high speed and the priceless asset of being able to cruise as long as four years without refueling. Because the Big E is nuclear-powered, says Rear Admiral Henry L. Miller, who commanded the ship's task force until mid-February, she "can do just about everything better, easier and faster...
Another big asset is that the Enterprise has no smokestacks. On oil-burning carriers, acidic smog combined with salt-air corrosion necessitates ceaseless cleaning of aircraft and equipment. On the clinically antiseptic nuclear carrier, 15 to 20% fewer man-hours are required for corrosion control. The lack of stacks also gives the Big E space for an additional squadron in her "bird farm." On her second day in combat, the ship launched 134 sorties, more than any carrier had ever previously flown; it has since set a new record...
Sober Nightclub. Even more influential is London's Siegmund Warburg. He fled to Britain with less than $25,000 in 1933, later stormed the City's tight inner circle by investing in growing companies, reorganizing sick ones and exploiting his best asset: savvy in world finance. As a master strategist of Reynolds Metals' 1958 battle for control of British Aluminium, Warburg fought most of the British banking Establishment-and won. His S. G. Warburg & Co. also plotted most of the press takeovers by both Lord Thomson and Cecil King, helped Chrysler buy into Rootes Motors, arranged financing...
...meal with a gallon of orange juice, hosted lavish dinners where champagne corks were gathered up in laundry baskets. What is not so well known is that Brady was one of the founding fathers of expense-account entertaining. He shrewdly courted publicity because he felt that it was an asset in his job as a railroad-equipment salesman; most of his opulent blowouts were aimed at getting orders for brake rigging, patent couplings and switch stands...