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Turbine Auto. General Motors Corp. has built a four-passenger successor to its experimental gas-turbine car, the Firebird. The Firebird II's engine, said President Harlow Curtice, "gives promise of being able to operate with substantially the same economy as present-day automotive piston engines." Instead of wasting the tremendous blast of heat that comes out of the back of the engine, the Firebird recaptures about 80% of it by means of a heat exchanger, uses it to raise the temperature of intake air and thus improve combustion. G.M. does not plan to produce the titanium-bodied Firebird...
...Harlow H. Curtice of General Motors: symbol and epitome of American industry. He has the vision, the courage, the initiative and the spirit that make business a success and Americans' magnificent production a reality...
Before the Senate;s Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommitee last week went General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice to answer charges that G.M. had 1) become too big, 2) abused its dealers, e.g., it refused to give more than one-year franchises. Right off the bat Harlow Curtice announced that G.M. was offering to turn the one-year franchises of all its 17,000 dealers into five-year contracts. The announcement caught Subcommittee Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney by surprise, but he quickly broke into a pleased smile and congratulated Curtice for taking "the suggestion I made when you were...
There were more smiles as the hearings dragged through their fifth week, and the smoke-filled, green-walled hearing room took on an air of a gentlemen's club. To rambling Joe O'Mahoney, Curtice became "Red." To carefully tailored Harlow Curtice, O'Mahoney became "Senator...
...mentioned for their "collectivist" views. These include former Communists like Richard Gorham Davis, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, Granville Hicks '23, Helen Deane Markham, Leon J. Kamin '49--no longer associated with the University--and Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, are classified as "fellow travelers" by Root...