Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotels) contracted to operate a 450-room hotel that, at 18 stories, will become the island's tallest building. Also in construction or on blueprints: the 174-room Intercontinental in Ponce, the island's second city; the $15 million Imperial in San Juan; a pair of Hotel Corp. of America branches-one of 350 rooms in San Juan, another of 176 rooms in its suburb, Santurce...
...year-old magazine has been hard pressed to compete with the wonders of the Missile and Atomic Age; for nearly a year Chicago's H. H. Windsor family has been trying to sell Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,325,735)-Last week it found a buyer: Hearst Corp.'s magazine division.-The buy was shrewdly calculated; magazine circulation is up 23% since 1950, while Hearst's 17 newspapers have been collectively losing ground. Hearst hopes to pump new life into the old Mechanics, but to the staff's handymen the transaction was a sad event. Mourned...
GENERAL DYNAMICS, eager to expand its civilian business, is well along in merger talks with Chicago's Material Service Corp., big (1957 sales: $103 million) producer of building supplies and coal...
Banks & Missiles. One of the first test machines was put to work for Cummins-Chicago Corp., makers of bank business machines, which needed a 600% increase in a certain manufacturing process; it got a 1,200% increase. The company also hoped to save $500 a week; it now saves about $1,000 a week on the process. Now Topp's Micro-Path division, headed by Thomas F. Johns, is out showing the machine to U.S. industry. North American Aviation wants four of the machines; Hughes Aircraft is interested in using the machine on a 20-ft. lathe to drill...
...Superba. Checker Motors Corp., makers of Checker taxicabs, next month will begin production of a family-type passenger car called the Superba, which it claims will "perform like a pleasure car and take punishment like a taxicab." The new car, powered by a six-cylinder engine, will be about 198 in. long and somewhat higher and narrower than most U.S. cars, sell in the $2,500 price range...