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From planes, Northrop made a short jump into recoverable Mach 2 target missiles for ack-ack training. The target drones, of which Northrop is the world's largest builder, float down to earth on parachutes after the shoot is finished-and they gave Northrop expertise in high-altitude landing systems. The eventual result: the Northrop-built recovery system for the Mercury capsule, including its 63-ft.-wide parachute, which brought Astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom down from space...
High-priced executives are job-hopping across the U.S. as never before. In the Midwest last week, a leading engine builder sadly watched his cherished production chief move on to a firm that makes recreational gear. Farther east, one of the nation's biggest manufacturing companies lost a top manager to a Wall Street brokerage house. Behind these and dozens of similar moves lay a major new force in the U.S. corporate life: the executive recruitment firm...
...supply of booklets on civil defense ran out in Atlanta, the Constitution published a full page of excerpts. In Boston, Civil Defense Director Charles Sweeney-who as a World War II pilot dropped the A-bomb on Nagasaki-estimated inquiries were "up 1,000%." A Los Angeles bombshelter builder reported: "Now we have to screen the moderately serious inquiries from the damned serious inquiries...
...Boston one builder lost a $780 contract because he couldn't start digging a small shelter for a panicky citizen the very next day. In Dallas, the Acme Bomb & Fallout Shelters Co. anticipated $100,000 worth of orders in its first month of operation. In Orlando, Fla., Shelter Builder Douglas Bartholow observed: "For two years I've starved in this business. But since Kennedy's defense talk, I've averaged two sales a day at $2,195 each...
Inevitably, the infant industry is faced with what one Los Angeles shelterman describes as "the problem of keeping out the suede-shoe boys and the siding salesmen." Says an Atlanta builder: "One firm ran an ad selling shelters at $450. The thing was 7½ by 7½ and not anywhere near Civil Defense specifications, though they claimed...