Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many businessmen involved in defense work this meant that, whether or not spending jumped, they could at least stop worrying about promised orders that they had feared might be canceled. Said Tom Bay, marketing manager of Fairchild Semiconductor Corp.: "The military has been holding back, particularly on advanced programs. Now they may feel they need to go ahead." Said Dean Wooldridge, president of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge: "I think the odds are more strongly in favor of increased defense spending than they were two weeks ago, particularly in the small-war area...
...half-century after Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt made a year-long safari through Kenya and Uganda, Teddy's grandson Kermit, 44, a vice president of Gulf Oil Corp., set out with two of his sons to retrace some of the route. Kermit Roosevelt will carry the same .405 big-game rifle that his grandfather lugged from Mombasa to Khartoum, but the present-day Roosevelt's safari will last only 25 days, be a much less lavish expedition than Teddy's. Aside from the hunting. Kermit, also a writing man, will take notes and pictures for a contemplated...
...Burbank, Calif, headquarters of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. last week, 50 commercial aviation leaders gathered to hear the answer to one of U.S. aviation's most fascinating and terrible riddles: What caused two Lockheed Electras to come apart in the sky over Texas and Indiana, killing 97 persons? To representatives of the Air Line Pilots Association and of 13 airlines (six of them foreign) now flying 136 Electras, Lockheed gave the answer: the doomed Electras' wings were torn off by a violent wing fluttering caused by a weakness in their engine nacelles...
...vending is something that goes by the repellent name of in-plant feeding installations. With them, such companies as Chrysler and American Motors have stopped losing money on company cafeterias. Machine makers are racing to perfect a complete in-plant feeding system for such operating companies as ABC Vending Corp. (1959 sales: $66 million) and Los Angeles' fast-growing Automatic Retailers Co. of America (est. 1960 sales: $35 million). ABC Vending, which began selling popcorn and candy in Manhattan movie houses, now has concessions in more than 2,750 theaters and 420 drive-in movies. It has taken advantage...
...matter how carefully management may say it, workers often do not understand what the boss is trying to get across to them. So reported Princeton's Opinion Research Corp. last week. Only 12% of the workers fully comprehend the average company house-organ article, said the report...