Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project looks clumsy-but has worked fine. The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario and the Power Authority of the State of New York evenly shared the $650 million cost of the power project, will evenly divide the electricity that it produces. The Washington-chartered St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. administered all seaway construction in the U.S., while Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority managed all seaway work north of the border. Industrialist James L. Duncan and Civil Servant Bennett John Roberts ran Canada's power and seaway agencies; Duluth Banker Lewis Castle and New York City Park...
...Truman Administration, a trusty news source for hardworking, Fair-Dealing Columnist Doris Fleeson, fiftyish, was Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. At long last on the asking side of a question, California Businessman (Aerojet-General Corp.) Kimball, 62, earned the right answer, last week provided Newshen Fleeson, ex-wife of the New York Daily News's Washington Columnist John O'Donnell, with a homegrown item: she and Dan, whose first marriage was dissolved last year, will be married next month at the home of Manhattan friends...
...they can earn. Some firms have even sent buzzers and shrill whistles to a salesman's children; when dad asks what the noise is all about, the kids are instructed to tell him it's only a reminder to straighten up and sell harder. More constructively, Carrier Corp. recently launched a three-month sales drive. First prize: a $10,000 scholarship for a salesman's son or daughter...
...Executive Vice President Harry Winston Bradbury, 62, a British-born career coalman, was elected president of Pennsylvania's money-losing Glen Alden Corp., biggest U.S. producer of anthracite (1957 sales of $62 million brought a net loss of $3,494,000). He replaces Francis O Case, 63, inactive since April, when Bradbury moved in from the presidency of Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Case had approved of the plan to merge Glen Alden with List Industries, successor to RKO Theaters Corp. and owner of 38½% of Glen Alden stock. But last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court enjoined the plan...
Bubbly Sand. Foamsil, a rigid, lightweight, acid-resisting sand insulating material that can be used in lieu of firebrick in lining furnace stacks or pipes subject to corrosion was announced by Pittsburgh Corning Corp. Expected to have wide use in the aeronautical field and also in nuclear energy installations (where its nonabsorptive nature keeps it from acting as a wick), Foamsil may also turn up as insulation in home electric appliances. Cost...