Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...systematically trying to loosen their U.S. corporate ties and to "Canadianize" their management. One conspicuous example is U.S.-owned Union Carbide Canada Ltd., Canada's second biggest chemical manufacturer. Ever since it was formed four years ago from five loosely knit subsidiaries of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., the Toronto company has sought earnestly to assume a Canadian coloration. It took on a Canadian president and board chairman, gave Canadians four out of seven seats on the board of directors, put Canadians in 95% of its key jobs...
This week Servo Corp. of America, which specializes in infrared, released pictures of the Long Island plant of Republic Aviation Corp. taken with heat waves emitted by its warm surfaces. The roofs of the plant show clearly. So do some of the runways on the flying field near by (see cut). This means that they have been warmed up by the exhausts of jet planes; runways that are not so busy show dimly or not at all. Two highways running past the plant are conspicuous because their pavement has been warmed by the tires and exhausts of heavy Long Island...
Search for Paradise (Stanley Warner Cinerama Corp.), the fourth Cinerama production, pursues the formula to its travelogical absurdity. As far as the scenery goes, Search is able to find plenty of it in the Himalayas. Airborne, the camera looks down like Shiva on the glittering tremendum of eternal snows; waterborne, it hurls the watcher through a thrilling passage of some rapids on the Indus River. But when the travel stops and the story begins, the show turns out to be a quasi-Oriental epic with a superman for a hero. The superman: radio's Lowell Thomas, who just happens...
...boss of the Toronto-based New Pacific Coal & Oils, Ltd. (mining, timber), got a whiff of the guano. He estimated the deposits held at least 100,000 tons and thought he knew how to go about getting it. Buying out the remaining leases, he went to U.S. Steel Corp.'s Consolidated Western Steel Division, asked it to stretch a huge cable-and-bucket rig from the caves to the canyon's south rim, where the guano could be trucked to market. Specifications: the cable must be strong enough to withstand 100-m.p.h. gales, the bucket big enough...
...DEAL will bring Boston syndicate into West Palm Beach, Fla. to put up $350 million new city with 10,000 housing units, two shopping centers, one of biggest industrial areas in South. Group includes Developer Martin Cerel, Lou Perini of Milwaukee Braves baseball club and Boston's Perini Corp. (heavy construction). They bought a 4,000-acre tract for $4,352,503, will start work within six months...