Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-tops (the industry term for indoor, non-drive-in theaters) built in the past two years, approximately 65 are located in shopping centers, and another 50 will probably be in operation by early 1963. General Drive-In Corp. of Boston, which helped launch the boom in drive-ins after World War II, began switching to shopping-center hard-tops when it opened one of the first in 1951 at the Framingham, Mass., Shoppers' World. It now has ten shopping-center houses flourishing from Florida to Massachusetts, and 20 more under construction or on the board...
...PAPER SHREDDER. A new office paper shredder not much bigger than a typewriter comes from Michael Lith Sales Corp. of Manhattan. The Destroyit Super-Speed can digest 500 Ibs. of confidential letters, microfilm, ledger sheets, contracts, blueprints in an hour, is not upset by stray paper clips or staples. It can handle sheets as wide as a newspaper, produces shreds in three widths-depending on the model-which it neatly spews into disposable plastic bags. For businesses where disposal of confidential or secret material is essential, Destroyit does the job on the spot. Price...
...Oakland, Calif., Engineer Rudolph Hurwich, 41, and Accountant Leo Helzel, 45, bought the rights to a hand-operated labeling device, formed Dymo Corp. After four years of rapid diversification, Dymo has sales of $10 million...
After years of straining hard, Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. last week broke into the charmed if turbulent circle of major aerospace contractors. Edging such bigger birds as General Dynamics and Boeing, Grumman was awarded NASA's $350 million initial contract to build the lunar "bug" that, it is hoped, will land Apollo astronauts on the moon by 1970. The 12-ton bug, called LEM (for Lunar Excursion Module), will be like nothing ever seen before: 10 ft. wide and 15 ft. high, with a window-dome top and three strutlike "legs" for landing...
...probes farther into airless space, he is met by an environment full of lethal radiation and extremes of temperature. For Los Angeles' Garrett Corp., the hostility of space is an industrial bonanza. Since it pressurized the cabins of World War II's high-flying B-29 bombers, Garrett has become the U.S.'s foremost specialist in keeping men alive in the yonder beyond their familiar surroundings. Garrett supplies oxygen gear for the Mercury astronauts, and is designing the breathing systems and environmental controls that will see U.S. Apollo crewmen to the moon...