Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down went nine automobiles, one a $100,000 sports-car prototype hand-built in Turin for the Chrysler Corp. Down went 1,764 bags of mail, together with crates of antiques and cases of vintage wines. When the writhing sea was still, the Coast Guard cutter Evergreen dropped a temporary tombstone: a yellow marker buoy...
...expression often retreats into its limitations, emphasizing the standard movements to a point where the dance is no longer creative. This week at the Boston Summer Theatre dance breaks through its restricting elements, adopts a contemporary aspect, and reveals itself as an abstract language that can be continuously built upon and expanded for all to enjoy...
...shuffle of Chrysler's top command capped a long list of changes aimed at strengthening the company. Chrysler had already scrapped the traditionally staid Chrysler lines for the "Forward Look," broken its highly centralized corporate structure into more flexible autonomous divisions, built eight new plants, including Detroit's most highly automated engine factory, allocated more than $1 billion for capital improvements during the next five years...
...Oilman-Senator Robert S. Kerr. As far back as 1951, the company was the first oil producer to decide that uranium, instead of being competitive with oil, was a supplemental and profitable field. In 1952, with $700,000, Kermac bought New Mexico's small Navajo Uranium Co., built a mill at Shiprock, N. Mex., did so well that it has expanded operations to a total of $3.3 million. By spending $100,000 a month for more exploration, it uncovered sizable reserves near Grants, N. Mex., thus became a major producer...
Martindell's Institute found that G.M.'s bigness is bad because it is too efficient; it has managed to disprove the theory that bigness automatically brings diminishing returns, and that there is thus a built-in check on size. Said the institute: "General Motors' net sales in 1955 amounted to $12,433,277,000, or more than ten times G.M.'s sales volume in 1935. G.M. profits [for 1955] were $1,189,477,000, or about $34 million more than their total sales in 1935. According to all classic economic concepts, such a growth ought...