Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conway, 53, general secretary of the 1,300,000-member Amalgamated Engineering Union to which most of the employees at the girls' company belong. "The problem in British industry," he added, "is outdated, outmoded factories, and outmoded and ill-equipped management." Nonetheless, the workers at the girls' firm defied a union order to stop the free work and even threatened to bolt the union...
...Rosenthal China Co., who brought out a line of china that Gropius was willing to bet would not sell well. The architect offered to pay off in a new home for Rosenthal's porker Roro. Rosenthal's plates have sold splendidly, and Gropius' architecture firm is now busily at work, said an associate, "studying how pigs live...
...Swiss firm will build at least two, and possibly four, mammoth 4,800-ton turbines, each able to generate an unprecedented 1,100,000 kw. to 1,300,000 kw. of power. The first is to be installed at a nuclear plant in St. Joseph, Mich., by 1973. Altogether, four of the firm's "turbosets" could increase by more than 50% the power now produced by the 30 generating stations in American Electric's seven-state, Virginia-to-Michigan system...
Founded in 1891 by two ambitious young engineers, Englishman Charles E. L. Brown and Bamberg-born Walter Boveri, the firm got going with a felicitous marriage. Boveri's father-in-law, a wealthy Zurich silk merchant, provided the partners with an initial $170,000 stake. But technology was B.B.C.'s real dowry. The firm built a pioneering standard-gauge electric locomotive in 1899, rolled a long way with the expansion of European railroads, and soon began turning out early designs in circuit breakers, turbines and other heavy gear. And while its labs now work on cryogenics, lasers...
Another Ally. Long a family-run business, B.B.C. is now bossed by Dr. Max Schmidheiny, 59, a Swiss engineer who succeeded Dr. Walter E. Boveri, son of the founder, in 1966 (no Brown has been with the firm since 1941). While his three managing directors run day-to-day operations, Schmidheiny has been tuning B.B.C. up for a broad assault on the lucrative U.S. market. He thus considers it fortunate that, unlike most European firms, B.B.C. has not based its production on licensing agreements with the large American companies...