Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ripped out telephones and ransacked the front office. With about 20 other foreigners, apparently seized at random, the Jordanians were loaded into a truck that started off for the Ministry of Defense. Among those seized were three Californians: Robert Alcock, George S. Colley Jr., senior vice president of Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, and Eugene Burns, former A.P. correspondent. The truck drove slowly through milling streets. In front of the ministry gates the truck was trapped by a stalled vehicle in front of it, and the mob attacked...
MISSILE CONTRACTS to develop Air Force's solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM, with variable range of 500 to 5,500 miles (TIME, March 10), will go to Avco Manufacturing Corp. for nose cone, North American Aviation, Inc. for guidance system, Thiokol Chemical Corp. and Aerojet-General Corp. for engines...
FOOD MERGER is in works between fast-growing Corn Products Refining Co. and Best Foods, Inc. to create grocery processor second only to General Foods Corp. (annual sales: $1 billion). Corn Products (Mazola salad oil, Karo syrups) grossed $495 million last year, while Best Foods (Nucoa margarine, Hellmann's mayonnaise) grossed $114 million...
FIRST ALUMINUM BEER CANS in U.S. will be marketed by Hawaii Brewing Corp. in the islands. Seamless cans are made by punching single aluminum slug, weigh 50% less than "tin" cans...
...Stanley Warner Cinerama Corp.)makes a radical departure from the four Cinerama films that preceded it (and grossed $74 million along the way). It attempts a story. In fact, it attempts five of them. But in the end, after having been carted all over the South Pacific, viewers will feel as travelogy as ever...