Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cowboys & Oil. Fox intends either to build up the whole area through its Fox Realty Corp. or to develop 25% of it and sell off the rest to another developer for a capital gain. The moviemaker, which has still to raise the cash for the project, has started to dicker with at least five "interested" insurance companies, and one is considering putting up $50 million. Fox's lot-half of which it bought from oldtime Film Cowboys Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate...
...Army signed a $51.8 million contract with Chrysler Corp., Detroit, covering $21.8 million in continuing procurement of the 200-mile-range Redstone missiles and $30 million for finishing the tooling up and ground support for the longer-range (1,500-mile) Jupiter missile...
...Atomic Energy Commission extended through September 1960 its 1953 contract with United Aircraft Corp. to work on nuclear reactors suitable for aircraft propulsion...
...feel just as strongly that an executive is better off in a company school, where he can learn more lessons immediately valuable to his firm. They insist that picking out a few men to go off to school while the others mind the store is bad for morale. Burroughs Corp. prefers to teach executives in its own way rather than have them go off to school and pick up ideas that might not fit into the company's scheme. Furthermore, since executive training has become so popular, some companies feel that many colleges have set up inferior courses just...
...factor that worries many firms is the effect the return to campus may have on the middle-aged man (average age of the executive student: 40) accustomed to giving orders. Henry W. Hopwood, assistant public-relations director at Republic Steel Corp., found that his executive study days at Harvard helped him tremendously in his job, but he points out that some men run into trouble on campus: "For Mr. Big, pulling up stakes and becoming a college boy again was an experience to which some men couldn't adjust. There were lots of little complaints-false heart attacks, failing...