Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well, Pacific Fort St. John No. 3. By 1955 McMahon won permission from the U.S. Federal Power Commission to export gas to the U.S., started to build a $170 million, 650-mile pipeline from the Peace River area to the U.S. border, to hook into the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp.'s six-state gas grid...
NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY for rural co-ops will be slow in coming because of inflation. With costs zooming, American Machine & Foundry backed out of deal with AEC to construct reactor for proposed rural co-op at Elk River, Minn., and Foster Wheeler Corp. withdrew offer to supply reactor for another co-op at Grand Rapids...
...Service. Eventually, big companies may control all their own repairs. Westinghouse Electric Corp., the nation's third-biggest appliancemaker, is already working in that direction. Two years ago the company polled 10,000 U.S. housewives to find out what was important to them. The No. 1 item: service-63% of those who were satisfied with service said they would buy the same brand again; only 39% who were dissatisfied were willing to try again. Today product service is a separate division at Westinghouse, with responsibility for every appliance from hand irons to refrigerators. It not only oversees repairs...
BIGGEST INDUSTRIAL development in history of Iran will remake country's oil-rich southwest at cost of $91 million, drawn mostly from oil royalties. Government has hired U.S. Development & Resources Corp., headed by former TVA Chairmen David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, to build a 460-ft.-high dam for power, flood control and irrigation, along with a complex of industrial plants and pipelines...
Ever since the U.S. seized General Aniline & Film Corp. as a German enemy asset in 1942, the Justice Department has fought a running battle to hang on to it. Last week the Swiss government, which argues that General Aniline was really controlled by Swiss and other non-enemy interests, asked the United Nations International Court of Justice at The Hague to decide who really owns General Aniline. It is a rich prize: under U.S. stewardship, New York-based General Aniline has grown into a vast chemical and camera-supply (Ansco) empire with assets of $163 million and sales last year...