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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edwin H. Land, industrialist, inventor of Polaroid Land camera, president, Polaroid Corp..................................................................... Sc.D...
Reynolds Metals Co. boosted its primary production of aluminum to 100% of rated annual capacity (601,000 tons) last week, and said: "We're selling aluminum as fast as we can make it." Production at Aluminum Co. of America and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. was also rising, bringing the industry to 90% of its 2,300,000 tons primary capacity. Preliminary figures indicate that May production hit an alltime monthly high of 164,000 tons, and makers are confident that 1959 will be a record year, about 20% over...
COLOR TV SETS will soon be put on sale by Admiral Corp., because President Ross D. Siragusa believes there is finally a good market for color. Other TV makers, except color pioneer RCA, are still skeptical, do not seem likely to join in production. Admiral hopes to overcome consumer color-TV resistance by offering one-year guarantee on all parts, v. usual 90-day warranty...
THERMOELECTRIC heat pumps, with no moving parts, to air condition submarines are being designed for Navy by Carrier Corp. under $170,250 study contract. Work is major step toward future motorless, wall-panel-type air conditioners and heaters in private homes...
Roll Grinder Daniel Kuntz of U.S. Steel Corp. explained: "What the hell good is a raise? Everything goes up, and Uncle Sam takes 25% anyway. The important thing is to keep prices down." Added another workman: "If we get a raise, the merchants and the landlords raise prices to the equivalent of what we're getting. If we strike, we lose what we make in the raise anyway, so we lose twice...