Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently began to shift: the new chief at the office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Leo Hoegh, tossed out a bid by English Electric Co. Ltd. to build two hydraulic-electric turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, instead chose a 21% higher bid from Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., thus giving some political help to Republican Congressman Hugh Scott (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week the coalmen demanded still tougher controls on imports of residual fuel oils, arguing "national defense." Lobbyists for cobalt, fluorspar, tungsten (which are already heavily stockpiled) and such debatable defense needs as dental...
Again, a preoccupation with subtle combinations of tone color informed the short piano pieces by Bertram Baldwin and David Behrman (a violin also entered Mr. Behrman's piece for a while). There were row structures, not so elaborate as Wolff's, but complicated enough to be hardly perceptible. The avant-garde leader Boulez would tell us that structure has gone underground. But does this subterreanean structure really give shape to a piece, or does it happen accidentally, or not at all? In a short composition like Baldwin's it is easier to give a sense of cohesiveness; this piece, rather...
...hairline Senate election victory last November. Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman Hugh Scott probably swung some votes in job-short Philadelphia by announcing that he had assurance from the White House that a big Government contract would go to Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. Few outside Philadelphia paid much heed to the matter then. But last week, when the contract was formally announced, an international storm erupted over the order and the Administration's freer-trade policies...
...theory, satellite policymaking is done by the high-level National Aeronautics and Space Council, chaired by President Eisenhower. But NASC is a committee, with all a committee's shortcomings; so far it has met a total of only three times. Wrote New York Times Military Columnist Hanson W. Baldwin last week: "There are any number of men [in Washington] who can say no to suggested space projects. There are very few men who can or will...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A well-planned tour of the U.S.S. Forrestal, conducted by the New York Times's Military Editor Hanson Baldwin...