Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company. In quick succession, Barr formed a new department to pump life into merchandising and displays at Ward's 562 retail stores, expanded Ward's advertising-and-promotion staff, started pushing sales on credit and Ward's own private brands of paint, bicycles, fishing gear, etc. Working with the fat cash reserves piled up by penny-pinching, expansion-shy Chairman Avery ($21.8 million in cash, $176 million in securities), Barr's management team more than doubled its metropolitan phone-order stations, last year alone added another 132 catalogue order stores. Still another new management division, working...
After it finishes with Brewster, the McClellan committee plans to gear itself for Teamsters' President Dave Beck. Last week, at home in Seattle, Beck said he would decide whether or not to turn over his financial records to the committee after consulting with his newly retained lawyer: Pennsylvania's ex-Republican Senator James Duff.* But Committee Chairman John McClellan was having none of that. Beck, he said, must give the committee his records by this week or have them subpoenaed...
Other good drivers are usually also excellent mechanics. Not Portago. Before one of his first races (at Sebring in 1954), he and his co-driver took their car's gear box apart. When they got it together again, there were 54 nuts and bolts left over. Practical knowledge of their machine's innards helps other drivers get the most out of their engines. Alfonso keeps a steady foot on the throttle, a sure hand on the wheel and leaves the rest to luck. In a race like this week's test at Sebring, so much...
...driving Maseratis (TIME, Feb. 18), and Portago is inclined to think that the Maserati is too fragile to win. "There's no predicting when a silly thing will stop a driver just as quickly as a major breakdown," says he. A stark example of how "a silly thing"-gear failure-can suddenly alter the picture: Portage's own teammate, Eugenio Castellotti of Italy, who was one of his closest competitors for third place in Grand Prix standings, was killed last week while testing a Ferrari at Modena (see MILESTONES...
...damaged by rheumatic fever. Electrodes taped to his ankles and wrists led to an electrocardiograph screen. He had a blood pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then he stood by, relaxed, while an assistant cut deeper. To the surgical nurse standing...