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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes the maxim that often uplifts the front page of the most determinedly bigtime, small-town weekly newspaper in the U.S.: Grit, published in Williamsport, Pa. (pop. 46,000), by a bald, conservative optimist named George Lamade. By being aggressively agreeable, plain-looking, plain-spoken Grit has built up a national circulation of nearly 900,000 in 48 states, this month will celebrate its 75th birthday as the paper "that rings the joy bells of life...
...enemy's equipment. This is done by submarines and "ferret" planes that eavesdrop on enemy radars and try to record the electronic voices of interceptors and guided missiles. Every shred of information is analyzed, including false information, and a fair idea of the enemy's electronics is built...
...despite all his limitations, Packard has written a fascinating book which raises some valid moral questions. His chapter headings--"The Built-In Seual Overtone,"--"Back to the Breast, and Beyond," Class and Caste in the Sales-room," "Selling Symbols to Upward Strivers," and "The Packaged Soul" indicate the nature of his subject matter. His description of the techniques used to sell Mrs. Middle Majority, "the darling of the advertiser," and those used to revive the cigarette holder, instant coffee, tea, margarine, and prune industries are intensely interesting...
...charge to the top began in 1893 as a dollar-a-day student helper ("a dirty, oily job") in the Chicago plant; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. An M.I.T. electrical-engineering graduate, Swope took the G.E. helm in 1922, consolidated its holdings over the next 17 years, diversified the company, built it into a $300 million corporation. Together with his radical board chairman, Owen D. Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after the 1929 crash) an unemployment insurance plan for 100,000 employees (before the days of social...
NUCLEAR MERCHANT SHIP, the world's first, will be built for U.S. by Louis Wolfson's New York Shipbuilding Corp. on a bid of $20,908,774. Keel for 587-ft. N.S. (for nuclear ship) Savannah will be laid next year, launching is set for 1959, and in 1960 the 20-knot, 10,190-d.w.t. vessel will start operating as "a floating laboratory to study nuclear power [in] commercial shipping...