Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the Commission rejected Cook's motion for broader representation, Chairman Charles W. Greenough said he would request the arts center to set up a "theatre advisory group" including representatives of Group 20, the Poets' Theatre, the Brattle Theatre, and other such groups in the Boston area...
Some controversy was aroused at the MDC meeting Thursday because the arts center issue was not placed on the agenda until noontime of that day. Cook urged that a decision be postponed in order to allow further time to study the lease, but he was voted down...
...only 250 telephones, most of which connect the palace of 38-year-old King Mahendra with those of the Ranas, hereditary Prime Ministers. For the rest of its communications, Nepal depends on foot-runners, drum flourishes which announce major events, and one broadcasting station. This week Chicago's Cook Electric Co. was signed up by the International Cooperation Administration to bring modern communications to Nepal. Under a $1.5 million contract, Cook will set up a 1,500-line telephone system and a 50-station high-frequency radio-telephone network. High-powered radio transmitters will link Nepal with Calcutta...
...fast-rising Cook Electric, the Nepal contract is the kind of offbeat challenge on which it thrives. Building its growth on tough jobs that discourage competitors, Cook has pushed its sales from $350,000 in 1939 to $30.1 million in fiscal 1958. Along with sales, it has also built one of the top scientific organizations in the U.S. Says Cook's energetic President Walter C. Hasselhorn: "I don't get excited over assets. I get excited over men, abilities and talent...
Buck Rogers Inc. Cook's brainpower has taken it into dozens of fields. The company devised the recovery system for the Army's Jupiter missile nose cone (TIME, June 9), has presented the Defense Department with a plan for a manned space platform. Cook engineers are working on recovery systems for Atlas and Thor missiles, and on the triple-nosed Cree rocket, designed to eject parachutes at altitudes up to 150,000 ft. and speeds as high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule...