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Doubled Its Sales. While Rojtman developed and produced the tractors, his wife ran his ad campaigns, won an advertising award against such staunch competition as U.S. Steel. By 1954 American sales had reached $2,200,000, the next year more than doubled to $5,300,000. By the end of August this year, American's volume exceeded $10 million. At this rate, Rojtman predicts that 1957 sales will top $23 million...
Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb professor of chemistry, is the first winner of the new $1,000 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, the A.C.S. has announced...
Woodward will receive the award, established last January, at the society's next meeting, in April at Miami, Fla. The prize will be awarded annually for creative work in synthetic organic chemistry published in an American journal during the three years preceding the selection date...
...from the board last week for violating the rule that prohibits CAB employees from buying airline stocks. For weeks CAB had been trying to find the man who on Aug. 2, eight days before the official announcement, had tipped off Wall Street about the board's decision to award New England's little Northeast Airlines a lucrative New York-Miami air route. As a result, Northeast stock soared from 9½ to 12½ in a single day's frantic trading (TIME, Aug. 20). For a while it looked as though Lawyer Ruppar, who had bought...
...Peking radio for his stories after a trip through Red China, and scolded by the Canadian government for breaking a story on Canada's highly secret "flying saucer"-a saucer-shaped aircraft expected to fly 1,500 m.p.h. In Korea, where he won the Canadian Press Board Award for foreign correspondence, he was lost for four days behind enemy lines. In Indo-China, where the French "were so disorganized they let me fly their planes," a cyclist threw a bomb under the restaurant table that he was sharing with three officials...