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...plenty of fights for control of the company, and has never lost a battle. In the process out have gone five presidents, 32 vice presidents and countless other top employees. But last week the toughest opponent of all stepped into the ring against Avery. The new challenger: Louis Elwood Wolfson, 42, one of the fastest-moving corporation jugglers of the postwar decade...
When Lieut. General Elwood Ricardo Quesada retired from the Air Force in 1951, he had behind him 25 years of service and the experience of commanding the AEC's first thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok (TIME, April 2, 1951). Last week "Pete" Quesada, now 50 and a Lockheed Aircraft Corp. vice president, got a chance to put both his military and scientific knowledge to good use. In Burbank, Calif., Lockheed announced that it was spending $10 million to set up a new scientific laboratory for advanced research by its missiles division. As the lab's boss, Airman Quesada will...
...Mitchell's request, Goldberg called Oak Ridge to sound out Elwood Swisher, president of the striking C.I.O. Gas. Coke & Chemical Workers Union. Next day while the fact-finding board hurriedly began hearings and anxious supervisors kept K-25 bubbling. Swisher flew to Washington to see C.I.O. President Walter Reuther. At 7:30 p.m., Reuther called Mitchell for a conference; they met at the Labor Department. Until 2 a.m. Mitchell listened to the union's aims and grievances (poor housing and community facilities, bad relations with K-25's operator, Union Carbide & Carbon). Next day he checked...
...professional flyer's scrapbook, it makes gripping, convincing reading, but it is spoiled, perhaps inevitably, by a scum of Nazi notions that nine years' retrospect and the detergent efforts of a British editor have signally failed to remove. Introducing Knoke, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, wartime chief of the Ninth Tactical Air Command in Europe, says: "He was a fine airman, very brave, and an excellent pilot. I would have liked having him in one of my own squadrons, had he been from a different mold...
Lockheed has had such success with experiments for a supersonic, pilotless craft that it is setting up a separate Missiles Systems Division to work full time on the project. Chief of the department: Lieut. General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, 49, commanding officer of the Ninth Tactical Air Command in World War II, who worked on missiles before retiring from the Air Force...