Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four flyers were Alabamans, residents of the Birmingham area and onetime employees of the Hayes Aircraft Corp. there. Riley Shamburger, 36, was a major in the Alabama Air National Guard and a World War II veteran, with more than 12,000 flying hours. Thomas Willard Ray, 30, was a former Air Force staff sergeant. Leo Baker, 35, had been an Air Force tech sergeant and a flight engineer for Hayes. Wade Carroll Gray, 38, had been a Hayes test pilot...
...four were approached just after New Year's, 1961, by Miami Attorney Alex E. Carlson, 38, head of a firm known as the Double-Check Corp.-ostensibly an aviation procurement company (the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency last week was busily denying that it had anything to do with it). The Alabamans and at least 14 other recruits were given contracts to go to Central America and train Cuban exiles in flying B-26s. As it turned out, they were to do a job that a lot of U.S. citizens wish many more Americans had been involved...
...Broadway shows and sport events may soon be playing on screens in theaters all over the country-and in color. National General Corp., which owns a chain of West Coast theaters, announced last week that it is equipping 150 of its own theaters and 200 others with General Electric's new "light valve" projector. If Broadway producers and sport promoters sign up as eagerly as National General hopes they will, nationwide theater pay-TV may be a reality within a year...
...With U.S. business hungering for specialized talent, such top scholars as New York University Economist Marcus Nadler earn up to $300 a day as consultants to management. University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield is also chairman of Smith-Corona Marchant and a director of Studebaker and Avco Corp. The hub of this extracurricular activity is Boston, where some 1,000 space-age companies have grown up since World War II, most of them started there to exploit readily available brain power and many of them founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard theorists themselves...
...American Seat Belt Council, which certifies that their belts will take a minimum 4,000 Ibs.' sudden pressure. Detroit has so far played it safe by ordering from such well-established firms as Irving Air Chute Co., Auto-Crat Manufacturing Co., General Tube Co. and American Safety Equipment Corp. Auto-Crat is so touchy about its public image that all its employees get free belts and must use them. "It would be embarrassing," says President Jim Robbins, "for a seat belt company employee to get hurt because he didn't have a seat belt...