Word: hurleyism
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...light came up on the liberation scene. But the rest of Director Herbert Grof's production was dull and conventional. As Leonore, the faithful wife, Norwegian Soprano Aase Nordmo Loevberg showed neither the vocal nor the dramatic power her taxing role demanded. In minor roles, Soprano Laurel Hurley and Tenor Charles Anthony were adequate as the jailer's daughter, Marzelline, and the turnkey Jacquino, and Bass Oskar Czerwenka contributed a strong, virile-voiced Jailer Rocco. But in their first-act quartet in the form of a canon, Mir ist so wunderbar, the four were often shakily uneven...
Curtiss-Wright Corp. and its Chairman Roy T. Hurley are having their woes in the business of making aircraft engines, but when it comes to press releases, they fly high. Month ago, with sales down from $599 million in 1957 to $389 million in 1958 and still slumping, C-W displayed a "revolutionary" new air-car for U.S. travelers, a vehicle that has no wheels, but zooms along at 60 m.p.h. just off the ground on a cushion of compressed...
Last week there was no further word of air-car production or of orders. But Chairman Hurley had another innovation to announce. Calling in the press, he displayed (but did not demonstrate) a radical new internal combustion engine billed as the greatest advance since the diesel. It has no pistons or valves, only two moving parts; there is a carburetor to mix air and gasoline, a single spark plug, a rotor that drives the crankshaft. Beyond that. Hurley refused details. CW, he said, had developed the engine in conjunction with West Germany's NSU Werke, makers of autos...
...that point, Chairman Hurley and C-W's board of directors had another piece of news: the company cut its quarterly dividend almost in half, from 62½? to 37½?. Sales for the first nine months of 1959 were down $40 million, with a $6,400,000 drop (to $9,000,000) in profits. Once again C-W was suspended from trading as investors tried frantically to dump their stock. When trading was resumed, C-W dropped, wound up 5⅞ points below the high...
...week's end the stock had firmed a bit, was back to 36½. But both the New York Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission had some questions to ask Curtiss-Wright and its managers. The exchange began investigating to see if Chairman Hurley or any other officer had bought or sold C-W stock recently. SEC Regional Administrator Paul Windels Jr. questioned Hurley about the price movements of the stock. Said Windels: "We are investigating to see if this sequence of corporation actions was done deliberately to have an effect on the market...