Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about Yale, psychologically speaking. We don't mean just the football team. We're talking about the ideal, the thing that's bigger than yourself, the reason you go on living. When you lose it, like Yale has, it's too bad. We're sorry to see it happen to a friend...
...Bigger Airports. Forty U.S. airports are spending $260 million for jet-age buildings, new ground facilities and enlarged runways. To handle the jets, runways will have to be lengthened to at least 10,500 ft. v. 7,500 ft. for the piston-propelled...
...Bigger Planes. The Boeing 707s are 144 ft. long, 28 ft. longer than the biggest piston plane and longer than the distance of Wright's first flight. They seem more like roomy club cars than planes. Though the 707 will seat up to 150 people, American plans to seat only 112 at first, evenly divided between first class and coach...
...nation's largest independent telephone company, General Telephone Corp. has been eclipsed by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. only because next to A. T. & T. any other corporation would look small. But General Telephone is a giant in its own right. Last week it planned to grow bigger. Its directors approved a deal, subject to stockholder approval on both sides, for General Telephone to take over Sylvania Electric Products Inc. on a share-for-share trade. The result: $1.5 billion in total assets, 76,000 employees...
...both companies the merger is a good deal. Sylvania has expanded some 17% in the last five years and has a $60 million backlog of defense orders for missile components and electronic systems. But it needs more capital. On its side, General Telephone needs a bigger base in the electronics field, anticipating the day when telephone service will dispense with some land lines and electromechanical switching equipment, take to radio and other electronic equipment. In April 1957 the companies reached the "getting to know you" stage when General Telephone President Donald C. Power, 58, went on Sylvania's board...