Word: gwinn
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Audible opposition to the bills dwindled to a few old congressional voices, e.g., New York's Republican Representative Ralph W. Gwinn, and a few organizations that have long opposed federal aid to education, e.g., the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce. Among this session's most emphatic backers of federal aid legislation have been Marion Folsom, outgoing Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Detlev Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Missileman Wernher von Braun; and the National Education Association (which, predictably, wants a vastly larger program than any that stands a chance...
...horsepower riches, Pratt & Whitney has important military contracts for a smaller J52 jet engine and a T57 turboprop, and is building a $50 million plant in Connecticut to develop a nuclear engine. Net result for United Aircraft, whose Chairman H. M. ("Jack") Horner and President William P. Gwinn also have a booming business in Hamilton-Standard propellers and Sikorsky helicopters: a $2.3 billion backlog at the end of 1956, which was some $900 million more than...
...Horace Mansfield Homer, 52, became board chairman of United Aircraft Corp., succeeding the late Frederick B. Rentschler, who founded the company (TIME, May 7). In as president went William P. Gwinn, 48, who has been general manager of United's Pratt & Whitney Aircraft division since 1943. "Jack" Homer, who will continue as chief executive officer, joined United in 1926 with an engineering degree from Yale, became Pratt & Whitney general manager in 1940. Horner directed the huge World War II expansion that made the company the biggest U.S. maker of piston engines for aircraft. Before becoming president of the parent...
...course taken there by General Electric weeks earlier. By week's end Sunbeam Corp., which had never willingly permitted its products to be discounted, joined the surrender and canceled all its fair-trade contracts with Michigan retailers. The State Supreme Court's decision, said Sunbeam President R.P. Gwinn, "destroys the last remaining legal basis for an effective fair-trade price structure...
...where three embattled women tongue-lashed Murrow and a member of the school board in what was obviously a long-sought opportunity to air their very real grievances. The film wound up with a televised debate between Alabama's Senator Lister Hill and New York Representative Ralph Gwinn that contained nearly as much nonsense as the preceding 70 minutes had clarity and intelligence...