Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says that the booster of Sputnik III would need 500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the Defense Department's Advance Research Projects Agency, thinks that as little as 200,000 Ibs. might be enough. German-born Dr. Walter R. Dornberger, of Bell Aircraft Corp., compromises for 440,000 Ibs. This is not far above the thrust (360,000 Ibs.) of the Air Force's still unproven Atlas and Titan missiles...
Another way to fight the recession, said Whirlpool Corp. Chairman Elisha Gray II, is to take a close look at products already on the shelf and see why they are not selling. "You can only conclude that it is because the merchandise we manufacturers have offered has not been attractive enough. Our past market experience has told us that we had overdesigned some of the features we were offering -I refer particularly to the complexity of some of today's modern home appliances -and our review has brought us back a little to products that are simpler to operate...
...small foreign carriers out of the air. But many airmen think they should stay out of the international big leagues and concentrate on regional feeder operations where they can perform a real economic service. A prime example is Lebanon's Middle East Airlines (48% British Overseas Airways Corp. owned), which operates a profitable Viscount service throughout the Arab world-where air traffic increases 30% annually (world increase: 13%)-and has no ambitions beyond operating as a feeder service. A second solution for small lines would be to merge with others to form one major international unit along the lines...
...most heavily traded stock on the American Stock Exchange last week belonged to a company that few Wall Streeters had heard of until recently: General Development Corp., whose shares went from twelve to 17? in the past month. General Development, pioneering a new kind of land boom in Florida, is building and selling houses at a price that retired oldsters on social security can afford...
...some 35% (fiscal 1957: $219,011,532). A onetime professor of marketing at the University of Chicago, Palmer joined Field's in 1936, became president after he turned down an offer to become board chairman of Montgomery Ward. ¶ Lee Talley, 56, president of Coca-Cola Export Corp. since 1954, was elected president of the Coca-Cola Co. to succeed William E. Robinson, 57, who moved up to chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Son of a minister, Alabama-born Talley went to Coca-Cola as a salesman right after Atlanta's Emory University, won a reputation...