Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Portable Escort. A tiny but clamorous siren for unescorted women to carry at night was put on sale by Dallas' Atlas Alarm Corp. Noisy enough to be heard a quarter of a mile away, the spring-powered siren is intended to scare off molesters and summon rescuers. Price...
...jittery, one of Wall Street's shrewdest traders, Floyd Odlum, had at least turned cautious. After unloading Consolidated Vultee (TIME, April 6) just before its stock broke, Odlum's Atlas Corp. was 38% in cash and Government securities (total: $68 million), and at Atlas' annual meeting last week he told the stockholders that he intended to keep it that way for "weeks or months" while he took a breathing spell. In short, Odlum seemed to be betting he could buy stocks lower later...
...Like Atlas, the Greentree Stable's Tom Fool is constantly being made to carry the weight of the world on his back. At least so it seems to Greentree's Trainer John Gaver, the man who sends the handsome bay colt to the races. As a three-year-old Tom Fool was ailing, and never got a chance to run in the Kentucky Derby or the other three-year-old classics. But this year, a filled out, mature four-year-old, Tom Fool is already being talked of as one of the top handicap horses of all time...
...caravans, toward the valley of the Sun Kosi. The track lay through rhododendrons, oak trees and patches of fern; then the country roughened, and three great ridges rose before them. From the first, Chyanjma-la. the leaders looked north and saw Everest face-to-face-a hunchbacked Atlas with the sky of Tibet on his back. At last they entered the valley that drains Everest itself...
...roster A Delaware Valley companies represents a cross section of both the nation's industry and its best-known names. In addition to such old valley residents as chemical makers Du Pont, Hercules and Atlas, the long list of newcomers includes Chrysler (with its $19 million tank plant at Newark, Del.), National Biscuit (a $10 million plant), Colorado Fuel & Iron (a $50 million works). Among other new industries: textiles, plastics, rubber, smelting...