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McCann's bill mentioned only the construction of underpasses and overpasses on the drive. But Edward L. Bernays, organizer of the Citizens' Emergency Committee, said it was generally believed that the MDC will stagger construction of the underpasses to cushion public resentment and ultimately announce that the entire drive will be widened and made into an expressway, necessitating the destruction of the sycamore trees which line...
...Government projects, but the most obvious solution is to turn defense skills to producing civilian products. Lockheed has in the works such diverse products as fuel oil registers, highway bridges, ferryboats, saltwater anticorrosion systems and new metal alloys. Republic Aviation has signed up to build the British Hovercraft air-cushion vessel in the Western Hemisphere, and Boeing and Grumman are both experimenting with hydrofoil boats. Sperry Rand's defense engineers have produced a machine tool that is run by a computer, and Glendale's Electronic Specialty Co. is diversifying into heating and ventilating equipment. Ampex Corp. has reduced...
...move to Hamilton, and only 900 production workers will be kept on in South Bend to produce some of the parts for the Canadian assembly plant. Realizing that Studebaker's future was precarious, the city of South Bend has been diversifying its industrial base for several years to cushion the shock; Studebaker has recently accounted for only 3% of the city's total payroll. Still, that payroll amounted to some $600,000 a week, and its loss will be intensified by thousands of job-searching workers joining the unemployment rolls...
Studebaker's dealers had no such cushion. With the high-priced Avanti sports car, the medium-priced Hawk and all commercial trucks discontinued, they can still sell the low-priced Studebaker sedans that will be made in Hamilton. But business has been so bad recently that it could hardly get worse after last week's announcement...
...opening minutes of play. Northeastern started out using a full-court press, but it didn't rile the quintet a bit. Without misfiring once, Scully or Al Bornheimer would lob a long pass to Inman who shot the ball to McClung. The Crimson had a 13-6 cushion before the Huskies realized the futility of their tactics...