Word: inces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force intends to rely on bombers-the faster and higher-flying the better-controlled by alert crews whose accuracy and judgment are as yet superior to those of unmanned vehicles. Last week the Air Force announced that it would contract with Los Angeles' North American Aviation, Inc. for development of the WS (for weapon system) -110A, an intercontinental bomber hopefully designed to fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) at altitudes ranging to 125,000 ft. The so-called "chemical bomber" will use not the ordinary fuels such as kerosene and gasoline but materials probably...
Change of Plan. To beef up the original plan of sharing capitalization and profits fifty-fifty with small borrowers, Graham has switched to 50% from an entrepreneur, 25% from a wealthy Indian (both in rupees) and 25% in dollars from Private Enterprises Inc. On the committee of Indian bankers and businessmen who screen the loans, this has the effect of more help to enterprises in which they have a chief interest. But bigger deals will persuade more big businessmen to put up more matching rupees, get them in on the crusade...
Convertible TV. The first TV receiver that can be converted from a console or a table model into a portable was announced last week by Sylvania Electric Products Inc. The 21-in. model is transformed by removing an entire unit from the larger console, placing the console's detachable speaker into a special compartment in the smaller circuit, plugging into any electrical outlet. Price: $229.95 to $379.95. Neat Meat. A new method of packaging frozen meat so that it can be kept for a year or refrozen after defrosting is being introduced by Wrigley supermarkets of Detroit.' After...
Musical Telephone. A transistor-powered telephone signal that emits a staccato-like, musical tone instead of a ring has been developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. and is being tested on 300 telephone subscribers in Crystal Lake, Ill. The new signal is available in eight musical pitches...
...Hollywood really through? This year, average weekly movie attendance is down to 44.2 million from a peak postwar average of 82.4 million, according to Sindlinger & Co. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., which will pay stockholders a respectable dividend (25? a share) this quarter and has declared a 25?extra dividend, this month fired some 400 of its 1,300 permanent employees, announced that it was "taking time out for a reappraisal," meantime would live off its 32 unreleased films...