Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read Popular Mechanics magazine. It was the bible of budding scientific and engineering genius, the blueprint to mechanical marvels and monstrosities. But in recent years the 56-year-old magazine has been hard pressed to compete with the wonders of the Missile and Atomic Age; for nearly a year Chicago's H. H. Windsor family has been trying to sell Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,325,735)-Last week it found a buyer: Hearst Corp.'s magazine division.-The buy was shrewdly calculated; magazine circulation is up 23% since 1950, while Hearst's 17 newspapers have been collectively...
...more railroad men are thinking of mergers. Last week word leaked out of a merger possibility among seven major eastern and Great Lakes lines, discussed recently at a Cleveland meeting of the lines' executives. The lines: Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Reading, Delaware & Hudson, Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis), and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western...
...combination of the seven railroads would be equally logical; all have something to offer each other, and two (the B & O and the Lackawanna) own sizable chunks of other lines in the proposed merger (the Reading and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis). A merger of the seven roads would be bigger than either the Central or the Pennsy, the nation's largest road, and nearly as big as the proposed merger of the two. The seven roads together would have 19,050 miles of main track in ten states (including many duplicated facilities), compared with 12,800 miles...
GENERAL DYNAMICS, eager to expand its civilian business, is well along in merger talks with Chicago's Material Service Corp., big (1957 sales: $103 million) producer of building supplies and coal...
...Fair Lady, in CHICAGO, Music Man in SAN FRANCISCO are reasonable facsimiles of the Broadway originals (see above...