Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near-bankrupt Northeast Airlines will thankfully proclaim: "Welcome aboard. Howard Hughes!" After stalling off enigmatic Industrialist Hughes for two solid years, the Civil Aeronautics Board last week grudgingly authorized his Hughes Tool Co. to buy 56% of Northeast's outstanding stock from New York's Atlas Corp. The consideration that finally turned the tide in Hughes's favor, said the CAB in its caustic decision, was "not whether Hughes Tool Co. could provide efficient management, but whether Northeast would have any management...
...face of it. Hughes's victory seems a Pyrrhic one. For the $5,000,000 that he will pay Atlas, Hughes will get control of an airline that lost $9.4 million last year and currently reports a "net worth deficiency" of $23.4 million. Merely to keep the line alive is certain to cost Hughes many millions more. And by decreeing that transactions between Hughes Tool Co. and Northeast may not exceed $100,000 a year without its specific approval, the CAB seems to have ruled out a lucrative trick that Hughes used to practice with Trans World Airlines: buying...
...years ago, when he struck the MiVida uranium deposit on the Colorado Plateau, slim, haggard Geologist Charles A. Steen was so broke that he couldn't afford to buy milk for his children. Last week Steen agreed to sell MiVida and itc mill to New York's Atlas Corp. for $12.8 million. Steen sold for capital gains "because it was the only way I could keep anything." Steen now operates two big Nevada cattle ranches, has branched out into other kinds of mining (lead, zinc, silver, gold and mercury), recently bought a New Mexico marble quarry...
...said Project Mercury Operations Director Walter Williams. "It was perfect." Waiting inside his Aurora 7 capsule, Carpenter had no problems. With eleven minutes to go, a morning ground haze at Cape Canaveral caused a 45-minute delay. Then the sun burst through, and at 7:45 E.S.T. the huge Atlas missile blazed into...
...consult an atlas you will notice that the town near the (proposed) British terminal is Ashford, not Ashbury, and that on the French side the town is Sangatte, not "St. Gatte." Indeed, as far as I know, the Calendar of Saints does not mention Saint Gatte...