Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through Different Lenses. In a blistering, six-page letter of rebuttal, that longtime master of invective Robert Moses, president of the World's Fair Corp., defended the fair's financial soundness: he also accused George Moore of "sabotaging" the fair, of lacking "understanding" of its problems and of having advocated the very policies he criticized. Obviously, Moses and the bankers who differed with him saw the fair through different lenses-but then the World's Fair Corp. is an unorthodox corporation. Formed in 1959 by five New Yorkers as a nonprofit corporation, it runs the first fair...
Born. To Inés Cuervo de Prieto, 35, Venezuelan housewife who in September 1963 gave birth to Latin America's second set of surviving quintuplets; and Efrén Lubín Prieto, 39, worker for Creole Petroleum Corp.: twin girls, their eighth and ninth daughters, 21st and 22nd children; in Maracaibo, Venezuela...
...that his new metal-plating system is all polished up and promises to revolutionize many industrial processes, Physicist Donald M. Mattox of Albuquerque's Sandia Corp. is faced with a persistent question. "People keep asking me why no one thought of it before," he says, and he has quit trying to find an answer. His best guess is that prac tical metallurgists knew too little theory to tackle the problem, while basic research scientists, who know enough theory, were unconcerned with such practical work...
Everybody's race is against the British, who almost won by default. Not since 1953, when the British introduced the Viscount turboprop, have they made such a determined selling push. British Aircraft Corp., maker of the $2,800,000 BAG One-Eleven, has lined up 74 orders and 16 options from airlines, including three customers in the U.S.-American (25 planes), Braniff (14) and Mohawk (5). Deliveries will begin in a couple of months, nearly a year ahead of Douglas, but Douglas hopes that many airlines may hold off ordering until its plane takes...
...Boston & Maine R.R. 200% Comsat 166% King's Department Stores 155% Sunshine Mining 139% Fluor Corp. 133% Erie-Lackawanna R.R. 130% Chicago & North Western R.R. 127% Evans Products 121% Chicago Great Western R.R. 119% I-T-E Circuit Breaker...