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...time chasing a mirage. His Cabinet was howling hate at the French, his Foreign Office was split, his people resentful at being turned away unloved, unwanted once again. His opponents sneered that though he had virtually handed Germany to the West, all he had received in return was a boot in the backside...
...High-Boot Oceanographers. One result of this burst of activity was that Texas got a first-rate Department of Oceanography. Backed largely by oil money, the department was set up at Texas A. & M. Its students cruise the Gulf in the pursuit of science. These newly seagoing Texans talk and look like oceanographers from Massachusetts or California, but some of them wear high Texas boots while they probe the depths of the Gulf. The system most used for drilling in the open Gulf is a sophisticated outgrowth of the simple, pile-supported platform. Brown & Root, Inc. of Houston starts with...
...products and create new markets. Under dynamic management, many a company has diversified so fast that it has not even found time to change its name to keep pace with its progress. Examples: Minnesota Mining (up 55%) moved from fluorspar to Scotch tape, now makes recording tape to boot; American Machine & Foundry Co. (up 26%), which started out making cigar machinery, now produces everything from bowling pin setters to tie-stitching machines and pretzel twisters. Even the steel industry (whose stocks are up 38% since September) is tentatively edging into the plastics field...
...center of speculation since he resigned as Deputy Secretary of Defense, settled things this week by returning to G.M. Kyes, who had been general manager of the G.M.C. Truck & Coach Division, went back to a new and bigger vice president's job, and as a director to boot. In addition to bossing G.M.C. Truck & Coach, Kyes will head up G.M.'s Dayton operations (engines, accessories, etc.) and household appliances (Frigidaire and Delco...
...Pretty Tune. The typewriter's future was obscure in its infancy. Not even Inventor Sholes had faith in it. But Promoter James Densmore. like Sholes a former newspaperman, believed in it "from the topmost corner of my hat to the bottommost head of the nails of my boot heels." He wanted to play Sholes' "literary piano" to the tune of a million dollars...