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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal purveyor of power to the nation's fastest-growing state, San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has to expand at full speed just to keep up. Already a giant among U.S. power utilities, it ranks first in the size of the area it covers, first in revenues (1963 earnings: $113 million on $749 million sales), and second only to New York City's Con Edison in generating capacity. P.G. & E.'s growth has been so phenomenal that the company will spend a record $255 million in 1964 on new power plants and transmission facilities...
Scientists are not sure what makes tin whiskers grow. They are slender crystals that seem to squirt out of the metal like toothpaste out of a tube. They grow fastest at 125° F., which is close to the temperature inside a home hi-fi set, but they grow well enough at average room temperature (70°), which is common in enclosed parts of spacecraft. Now a spacecraft with a faltering voice or an electronic brain that has become psychotic need not be given up for lost. Allowed a few days to grow, the little tin whiskers will make...
...moved their families to Dallas, far from the refineries of Houston and the oil derrick forests of East and West Texas. As the oilmen sought to stabilize their money, they invested in Dallas real estate, banks, and insurance companies. After Los Angeles and Houston, Dallas was the nation's fastest growing major metropolis between 1950 and 1960. As a result of their experience in promoting Dallas as the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Celebration, the city's merchants and bankers organized the Dallas Citizens Council (DCC). San Antonio, with the Alamo, and Houston, with nearby San Jacinto Battlefield offered...
Gallatin really started something. To day more than 50,000 U.S. companies have profit-sharing plans, and profit sharing is one of the fastest-spreading ideas in U.S. labor relations, often embraced by men who find themselves on opposite sides of the bargaining table...
...Volkswagens came beetling into the U.S. auto market a decade ago, and started the compact trend. U.S. automakers managed to fight off the trend by joining it. Now they are fighting back on Volkswagen's home ground and challenging VW's lead as West Germany's fastest selling car by appealing to the German yen for more luxurious autos. In 1963's first nine months, VW's share of the burgeoning West German market dropped from 33% to 28%, while General Motors hiked its share from 18% to 23½% and Ford rose from...