Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Co,, "we fully intend to carry on indefinitely." Paul Smith remained as board chairman, president and editor in chief. But he was expected to leave as soon as he finished picking up the pieces...
...said he, "have been looking hard at the problem for some time, and we hope to be able in the near future to come forth with some direct kind of action to help meet it head-on." Ford proved as good as his word. This week, the Ford Motor Co. and the Ford Motor Company Fund* offered the University of Michigan enough money ($6,500,000) and enough land (210 acres, valued at more than $3,000,000) to start a cooperative college in Dearborn...
Thirty years ago, over cornucopia-shaped Radiolas, Americans in 25 cities heard the first peep out of the National Broadcasting Co., created by RCA's David Sarnoff to sell more of what he first envisioned as a "radio music box." Last week, with a $350,000 birthday party in Miami, NBC proudly surveyed what Sarnoff had wrought. It had grown into a giant with 207 TV and 188 radio affiliates, yearly net revenue of $159 million, 5,500 employees and 35 vice presidents,*and the cachet of being sued by the U.S. as a monopoly...
...plant at Monticello, Utah and eleven privately owned plants representing an investment of $50 million did the refining job. Top producer: Anaconda Co.'s mill at Bluewater, N. Mex., which handles 3,000 tons of ore daily. Eight more mills costing $35 million and capable of processing 4,000 tons daily are scheduled to be built in 1957 and early 1958. There will be plenty of ore for all. The AEC announced that the U.S. now has proven uranium reserves of 60 million tons, 60 times more than known reserves in 1948. Biggest cache: New Mexico...
BRITANNIA TURBOJETS will go into commercial service in February. After many delays, Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd. has modified turbine engines, cured problems of icing, flameouts. British Overseas Airways Corp. will start planes that can carry up to 133 passengers on London-South Africa run, later fly them to Australia, Far East...