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Last week Boeing Airplane Co. was also flourishing. Under Bill Allen's careful tending, the company backlog has grown to almost $2.5 billion, the biggest in the industry. Sales in 1953 hit $900 million. Profits last year soared to $20 million, more than any other U.S. planemaker...
...less autonomous, the Institute takes under its wing research projects from regular Yale professors. These include everything from an investigation into how people change their attitudes to the curing of some mental disorders by the re-education of emotions. Through such projects, the Institute hopes to collect a backlog of information that will tell man as much about himself as the physical sciences tell him about nature. "There is nothing more important," says Professor May, "than the ties that hold people together and the prejudices that hold them apart. There are always squeaky wheels. Some...
...unit-cost (one price for the job) contract. Says Morrison: "A business isn't worth a damn unless you get out and compete." In the first year under Morrison, Ferguson's gross climbed from $27.8 million to $73 million (net: more than $1,000,000), and its backlog jumped from $20 million to $85 million...
...backlog of old films, which, if released to television, would be worth millions...
Glenn L. Martin Co. had sales of $208,006,538 and a healthy net of $15,094,756 ($7.06 a share), both peacetime highs but below World War II records. Sales were up 45% over 1952; profits were 160% higher. Martin entered 1954 with a $550 million backlog, down $100 million in a year. From a 1952 low of 8⅞, its common stock has climbed...