Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking on industrial chemistry, Earl P. Stevens, president of Arthur D. Little Inc., said that the industry's doors are "open wide" to college graduates with B.A.'s in Chemistry...
...familiar figure around Washington courtrooms these days: Earl Browder 59, former head of the U.S. Communist Party. Out on bail awaiting a contempt of Congress trial, at which he has announced he will be his own defense attorney, Browder is currently busy boning up on courtroom dialectic...
...Douglas Aircraft's plant in Santa Monica, workers this week put the finishing touches on the first DC-6A built for all-cargo operations. On the silver sides the pressurized, 325-m.p.h. plane was painted the owner's name: "Slick Airways Inc." Said 30-year-old Chairman Earl F. Slick: "For five years we didn't even know if we could stay alive. Now we can't grow fast enough...
...profits, Earl Slick is putting up $500,000 of the $1,000,000 cost of his first DC-6A; Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. lent the balance. With 1951's business still gaining (February profit: $150,000 before taxes), Slick has made similar deals for two more DC-6As to be delivered later this year, for a total $3,500,000 expansion. The three new planes (payload: 30,000 Ibs. each) will boost his cargo capacity almost...
...could drum up a lot of freight business-from 11 million ton-miles in 1946 to 26.4 million in 1949-they had trouble proving they could make it pay. Several times they had edged into the black only to groundloop into operating losses that totaled $2,440,000. If Earl Slick had not been able to tap his family's Texas oil millions, the airline probably would have cracked...