Word: humps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burden alone. Says President Newton I. Steers Jr., of the Atomic Development Mutual Fund, Inc. (assets: $45 million), a onetime AEC official and longtime private-power advocate: "There isn't a reactor manufacturer in the U.S. who doesn't favor Government assistance to get them over the hump...
...takes over as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. "Terrible" Tunner, impatient, coldly efficient, has made his biggest mark as a top transport troubleshooter. West Pointer Tunner headed up the wartime Air Transport Command's ferrying division, later brilliantly steered the arduous Burma-China supply shuttle over "the Hump," the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, and the combat air supply in Korea. (A Tunner-made motto: "We can fly anything, anywhere, anytime.") The job of European Air Force boss was Tunner's first all-round command, broadened his background to make him a top-echelon candidate...
...Corp. Chairman Benjamin F. Fairless, chairman of the institute, also predicted a rise in steel capacity that may top the 1956 increase of more than 5,000,000 tons. Most steelmen were confident that 1957 will equal or surpass 1956 in production. "I believe we're over the hump," said Armco Steel Corp. President R. L. Gray. "Things look better; incoming orders are picking up; inventories are down to where steel consumers have...
...TIME is to be congratulated on the very excellent article; however, the statement is made that "electronic brains made by International Business Machines will sort, classify, route and guide all freight cars from an inclined switching hump to their proper tracks automatically." This is not correct, as all the equipment installed at the Conway Yard, which controls freight cars in this automatic manner, was developed and manufactured by the Union Switch & Signal Division of Westinghouse Air Brake Co. A. M. WIGGINS Vice President and General Manager Union Switch & Signal Division Swissvale...
...turn its 74-year-old Conway yard near Pittsburgh into the nation's most modern electronic freight system, handling 9,000 cars daily from remote-control panels. Electronic brains made by International Business Machines will sort, classify, route and guide all freight cars from an inclined switching hump to their proper tracks automatically; electronic signals will operate all switches; electronic scales will record each car's weight; radar-operated speed retarders will check the car's wheels to be sure that each coupling is made at precisely the proper speed. Saving to the Pennsy...