Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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January and February production figures for the auto industry, released in Detroit last week, solidly documented the comeback of Chrysler Corp. and the slump in General Motors. Jubilant Chrysler announced that Plymouth was now back in third place, which it lost to Buick in 1954. For the first two months of 1957, Plymouth turned out 128,228 cars as against 100,274 Buicks. For Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, that was only part of the good news. Every car in the Chrysler line showed substantial production gains. Overall Chrysler car output in February was up 63% over...
PROXY TURNABOUT will send Fairbanks, Morse's President Robert H. Morse Jr. after seat on board of Penn-Texas Corp. at annual meeting in May. Insurgents plan to put up full slate of directors to oppose Penn-Texas' President Leopold Silberstein (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.), who is fighting to win control of Fairbanks, Morse...
PILOTLESS LANDING systems are in sight for nation's commercial and military aircraft. New robot system developed by Bell Aircraft Corp. electronically "locks in" plane's controls in the air, uses radio-radar-computer ground unit to ease in craft for three-point landing. Developed for Navy, system has gone through 1,200 successful test landings and Bell says it will make possible entirely automatic landings in any weather...
...called further appropriations "silly." A recent House report had said that of some 700 producers who were supposed to benefit from the program only 49 have actually participated, and the top nine have received 87% of the funds. McKenna added further facts: Kennametal's subsidiary mine, Nevada Scheelite Corp., has taken in $10 million from selling tungsten solely to the U.S. Government. For its own needs, Kennametal, a Pennsylvania tungsten toolmaker, has gone on buying from foreign producers at a far cheaper price...
...plant for Emerson Electric in Paragould at no immediate cost to the company. (The company pays off the cost of the building over 20 years at 5% interest.) They floated bonds, sold $50 membership certificates, got loans on pledges of future contributions. When Duracraft Boat Corp. of Monticello could not expand because there was no water nearby on which to test and demonstrate its boats, Monticello residents dammed up a stream and created a 20-acre lake. The company expanded-to the tune...