Word: chapines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...styling, though its sales have been off by 23% during a year in which A.M.C.'s overall performance has shown modest improvement (233,000 cars so far, v. 207,000 in 1967). Much of the success has been due to the doughty American, which Chairman Roy M. Chapin decided to promote as a competitor to small foreign imports. So far, sales are slightly ahead of the 1967 pace -not bad for a car whose basic design is four years old. Next year, as a five-year-old, about all it will get is a change in name, from American...
...part of that toward a $52.5 million short-term bank loan due at the end of the year. Equally important, income from the deal could enable the company to move further into the production of parts, thus reduce its costly reliance on outside suppliers. As A.M.C. Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. sees it, the sale of Kelvinator opens the way for "further integration or diversification" within the automobile business itself-which is, he noted, "our prime interest...
Typical of the Class of 1918 was Eliot Adams Chapin, who on June 27 flew his De Haviland two-seater on a bombing run against a railroad at Thionville, north of Metz. A swarm of German Fokker Scouts atacked the formation, raking Chapin's gas tank with bullets. Witnesses saw Chapin calmly shake hands with his navigator as the De Haviland burst into flames at 1,300 feet...
...dedicated to those Harvard men who died in the first world war. Listen for the bell, which bears the inscription "In Memoray of Voices that are Hushed." Pause before the fallen knight of The Sacrifice, a grieving woman at his head. See engraved the names of Eliot Adams Chapin and 372 other Harvard men who died to make the world safe for democracy. Think of Vietnam and the Class of '68 and tomorrow...
...careful research that makes the products of his map room so accurate, says Chapin, he must sometimes rely on informed guesswork. He remembers a week during World War II when a cryptic cable arrived from John Hersey, then a TIME correspondent, from Honolulu: "If Chapin is a wise man he will know what to map in the Pacific this week." Chapin studied a Pacific map to find what might make him wise. The only possibility, he concluded, was the Solomon Islands. When U.S. Marines invaded Guadalcanal, TIME'S map was ready to go to press...