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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After six hours, M.I.T. notified Tom's father, an official of the Illinois Bell Telephone Co., that his son must have met with some accident. Alfred R. Clark flew to Cambridge, broadcast a special appeal over TV for clues. Army and Navy helicopters flew over the area where Tom was last seen, and 100 M.I.T. fraternity men volunteered to join police in the search. But by the end of four days, only one lead had turned up. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sheehan of Waltham, Mass, reported that near 2 a.m. on initiation night, a boy answering...
...compared to food chains' profits of 0.99?. While this was more than double the profit of 1954, it was still well under the 1.6? made by the big four packers (Swift, Armour, Wilson, Cudahy) in their best year, 1947, when farmers also cashed in. For example, Swift & Co.. biggest U.S. packer, netted $23 million last year, compared to $19 million in 1954 and $34 million...
...RUSH is under way in Alberta, Canada. Union Oil Co. has hit an oil zone 4,797 ft. deep, 220 miles north of Edmonton not far from Lesser Slave Lake. Size of the strike is causing the biggest scramble ever in that province for drilling rights; 12 million acres were reserved in the first few days...
NUCLEAR POWER for the British Commonwealth will get a boost from U.S. industry. In the first commercial Anglo-American atomic project, American Machine & Foundry Co. and Britain's Mitchell Engineering, Ltd. have agreed to build a series of nuclear power plants in underdeveloped Commonwealth areas...
AUTO FREIGHT CHARGES for destinations in the South and West will be cut by Ford Motor Co. to satisfy complaints by dealers. Though Ford will still charge "phantom freight," i.e., on the basis of mileage from Detroit no matter how near dealers are to local assembly plants, the company will cut the charges as much as $49 on a Ford and $58 on a Lincoln. However, part of the reduction will be counteracted by a $16 wholesale price increase on Fords...