Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...research and development in the hope of creating a benign circle of economic activity: the exciting demand for new products creates employment, which in turn results in more money for more workers to buy still more goods. "The more we get," says Curtis C. Rogers of the Market Research Corp. of America, "the more we are willing to work to get still more...
...Treasury in 1895 by putting up gold for the Treasury, quelled the panic in 1907 by forcing leading bankers to produce enough cash to shore up shaky New York banks, put together a number of independent companies in 1901 to form the $1.4 billion United States Steel Corp. During World War I J. P. Morgan & Co. was the banker for the British government, raised $3 billion to buy war supplies...
...director of N. W. Ayer & Son in Philadelphia, he supervised Container Corp. of America's famed series that brought modern art into advertising layout. As design director for Olivetti, Lionni produced displays, designed new showrooms in San Francisco and Chicago. He has designed posters for Family Service, fountains for housing projects, displays for the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, is currently (among other things) art director of FORTUNE. But he has also kept on painting, producing a series of austere, severely painted portraits of men and women, remote and haunted-eyed. Says Lionni...
...ALASKAN OIL WELL, most important since Richfield Oil Corp.'s first discovery well on Kenai Peninsula near Anchorage (TIME, Aug. 5, 1957), was brought in by Standard Oil (Calif.) and Richfield, shows capacity...
Boston's bustling Sheraton Corp. took its first step off the North American continent last week. For $18 million, Matson Navigation Co. agreed to sell to Sheraton its four Honolulu hotels: the pink Royal Hawaiian, the porticoed Moana, the seven-year-old SurfRider, and the eleven-story Princess Kaiulani-all on famed Waikiki beach. Sheraton, second only to Hilton Hotels Corp., thus got 1,056 more rooms, boosted its total...