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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special qualities-both his and Atlanta's. He is a shrewd political showman, rarely misses the chance to make a speech, once delighted his audience by conducting a symphony orchestra with a Confederate flag. He is also an able administrator who gets a lot of public works built and yet manages to keep his budgets balanced. Thriving Atlanta, thickly infiltrated with migrants from the North, is still a Jim Crow city, but is on the whole ashamed of the violent racial prejudice that is the stock in trade of such wool-hat-minded Georgia politicos as Herman Talmadge...
...starting to use, it works better. Steelmen believe that most of the bugs in the direct-reduction method will be worked out in a year or so, and then one of the major companies may take the plunge and build a big plant. The first one would probably be built in the South or West, where the absence or high cost of coking coal now prevents building of blast furnaces. Meanwhile oldtimers are certain that existing blast furnaces will continue to operate for a long time, and that ways will be found to increase their efficiency. On the prospects...
John Jay Hopkins, a handsome, debonair son of a Presbyterian minister, provided the push and brilliance that built General Dynamics Corp. (1956 sales: $1 billion) into one of the postwar era's biggest industrial combines. A lawyer, California-born John Hopkins joined Electric Boat, predecessor of General Dynamics, as a director in 1937, engineered the acquisition of Canadair Ltd., a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, and then took over major corporations-manufacturing everything from telephone equipment to airplanes-until he had made the new complex the seventh largest defense contractor to the U.S. Government...
General Dynamics built the first atomic submarines, Nautilus and Seawolf, produced the Air Force's F-IO2A all-weather interceptor and the B58 Hustler supersonic bomber. It is now developing the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile as well as commercial uses of atomic energy, one of Hopkins' greatest enthusiasms...
...projected non-resident House, intended to replace Dudley, will be built on University-owned property on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets, now part of the garden adjoining the Fly Club...