Word: developers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfectly clear where it must come from, although much less clear whether it will. The President has already stated that he cannot devote any more of his limited time and energy to problems of foreign policy. Until he or one of his subordinates does devote the energy necessary to develop and implement a workable strategy for foreign relations it remains dubious whether anyone else can provide the West with firm leadership...
Four Harvard professors are currently participating in a program sponsored by the Educational Services, Inc. to develop a modernized high school physics course, which Burce F. Kingsbury, Assistant Director of the program, believes "has already caused a major upheaval in the two short years since its inception...
...Harvard in 1916, a subchaser skipper and Navy Cross winner in World War I, and a champion sailor. He joined the company in 1919, when it was a struggling small business directed by his stepfather, the late Walter H. Bowes. Bowes teamed with Inventor Arthur H. Pitney to develop the first crude postage meter. Wheeler went to Washington in 1920, presided over the demonstration of the machine that won federal approval for P-B to create what amounts to an auxiliary postal system. Soon after, young Walter Wheeler moved up to general manager, by 1938 was president...
...T.W.A. vice president, Jack Frye was equally at home with his burly, 6-ft. 2-in. frame folded behind an executive desk or behind the stick of a plane or draftsman's board. He helped develop some of the planes and practices that became standard among world airlines. With new planes, T.W.A. cut the transcontinental flight time from 48 hours to 16, and at 30, Jack Frye was elected the line's president...
...expanded T.W.A.'s routes, cajoled Howard Hughes into buying control of T.W.A. and pouring his millions into expanding the routes still farther. To do it, Frye and Hughes worked with Lockheed to develop the Constellation, electrified the air world toward the end of World War II by piloting a Connie across the U.S. in a record 6 hrs. 58 min. and from New York to Paris in 14 hrs. 12 min. With the new Connies in 1946, T.W.A. won air routes to Europe, Africa and Asia, rightly changed its name to Trans World Airlines. (Frye also enlivened the society...