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...House. Though Betty Furness is the star of its kitchen, the man of the Westinghouse is its $203,250-a-year president, Gwilym Alexander Price. It was he who took the gamble two years ago of spending $2,000,000 on the football telecasts that made Betty's face more familiar than the players'. It was he who staked another $3,000,000 last year to telecast the Chicago conventions, where Betty was shown oftener than Eisenhower or Stevenson. Price thinks the money well spent, modestly jests: "That girl's worth more to this company than...
More appliances of all kinds will be needed. Says Westinghouse's Gwilym Price : "We think 1953 should be a year of con tinued high production in the appliance business. We expect the consumer to buy at the highest rate in history." In 1953 the long-heralded age of atomic power will dawn. Westinghouse will start operating the land-based prototype of the reactor it is building to power the sub marine Nautilus. Since the reactor could also be used to run a commercial power plant, the National Security Resources Board urged the Atomic Energy Commission to let U.S. industry...
...quite as advertised, the J40 is. nevertheless, a milestone in Westinghouse's progress in the engine field. Westinghouse, which was' the first company to produce an American-designed jet engine in World War II, now also supplies the engines which power several Navy fighters. President Gwilym Price has poured on the coal to expand Westinghouse, not only in jets but in other propulsion fields. Among them: gas turbines (for locomotives), atomic power (for submarines and supercarriers), marine engines (for the superliner United States and Arctic icebreakers). As a result of Price's efforts, enginemaking...
Britain's Food Minister Gwilym Lloyd George looked into the nation's larder, and finding it all but bare, decided that Britons would get no extra food rations for Christmas this year. He sent his boss Winston Churchill a detailed memo explaining why. Churchill bowed to the decision, initialed the memo and sent it back -with an added notation: "Scrooge...
...Anglesey. Wales, Lady Megan Lloyd-George, left-leaning Liberal daughter of a famed Liberal father, lost the parliamentary seat she had held for 22 years. But her brother, Gwilym Lloyd-George, styling himself a Liberal Conservative, got elected. ¶ In Colne Valley, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, right-leaning Liberal daughter of another Prime Minister, Asquith, and a friend for whom Churchill himself had campaigned, went down to defeat...